Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 526Y

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DS ID:

DS15622

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 526Y

Title:

Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-multaqá al-nayyirayn / / كتاب مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين /

Majmaʻ al-Bahrayn

Author:

Ibn al-Sāʻātī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1254-1294 or 1295 / ابن الساعاتي، احمد بن علي

Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Sāʻātī WIKIDATA

Date:

1479

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 160 leaves: paper ; 183 x 130 (115 x 76) mm. bound to 185 x 140 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in small square naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, re-inking, etc. The text is vocalized. Red teardrop text-stops. On the two first pages of the text (fol. 1b-2a), frame in gold outlined in black, with headings in gold thulth outlined in black. Illuminated title page in blue, red and gold on fol. 1a. Thick dark cream paper, opaque...
Origin: Copy completed on Wednesday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 883 [Feb. 1479] by Muḥammad Abū al-Luṭf ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻImrān (colophon, fol. 159b). Collation statement on the margin of fol. 159b, stating that the text was collated on the copy of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Abū al-Jawd al-Ghazzī, known as Ibn al-Maghribī, itself collated on a copy written by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ayāsī, from...
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Islamic Empire

Fifteenth century

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic law

History

Thirteenth century

Sources

Hanafites

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952206693506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5d71bba-ce2b-45a7-b4cc-5bed0d132b61/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University