Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 368Hq

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DS ID:

DS15114

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 368Hq

Title:

Tuḥfat al-gharīb fī al-kalām ʻalá Mughnī al-labīb /

Author:

Damāmīnī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1361 or 1362-1424 / دماميني، محمد بن ابي بكر، 1361 or 1362-1424؟

Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Damāmīnī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

ʻĪdī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 17th century / عيدي، محمد بن علي، active 17th century

Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ʻĪdī WIKIDATA

Date:

11 Rajab 1009 [January 16, 1601

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 345 leaves : paper ; 275 x 162 (185 x 88) mm bound to 275 x 175 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. In margins of folios 2b and 3a is a statement that Ibn Hishām had written another work on the same subject at Makkah 749 [1348]; on his return to Egypt it was lost and therefore on his second sojourn in Makkah 756 [1353] he wrote the present ground-work. Title also appears on spine label.
Collation: Paper ; (2) + 345 + (1) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: grapes, crown and roman-alphabet lettering "...aridon" and "langu.") ; MS in good condition, but binding is loose and several folios are mended.
Decoration: Opening page has elaborate illuminated headpiece of blue, gold, orange, black and yellow with frame-ruling in gold, black and red, gold headings and gold dots (fol. 1b).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 11 Rajab 1009 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻĪdī (fol. 345a).
Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm al-madʻūw bi-al-Ḥijāzī?, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥijāzī?, Muḥammad Amīn ʻĀṭif, Mūsá al-Najdī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Blind tooled bindings

Autographs

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic language--Syntax

Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb (Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963570883506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/05eec26f-1ba8-41ca-9d03-fca5b5c385f0/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University