Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 45B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS14997

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 45B

Title:

Kitāb al-Qusṭās fī al-ʻarūḍ. al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī

Place:

Qusṭanṭinīyah

Al Qusţanţīnīyah TGN

Date:

1781

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 29 leaves : paper ; 185 x 115 (130 x 65) mm. bound to 195 x 120 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Inscription on a spine label (vertical): "45" (in Arabic and Western numerals).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 29 + i.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in medium small professional script in black ink with use of magenta ; watermarks ; inscription in pencil in Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Mīzān al-ʻaql". Worm-eaten.
Origin: [al-Kāfī] Copy completed on 1 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1195 [April 25, 1781] by Ḥāfiẓ Ḥusayn ibn Abī Bakr al-Nūrah Qūlī, in the Takīyah of the late Murād al-Mīlāqī al-Qusṭantīnī (colophon, fol. 29b).
Impression of a circular stamp with the inscription "Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Khayr al-Dīn" (fol. 1a, in purple ink). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Keyword:

Stamps

Early works

Gold tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Arabic language--Versification

Arabic language--Metrics and rhythmics

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952752893506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University