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Metadata

DS ID:

DS15658

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 215Bq

Title:

Kitāb al-Ikhtiyār fī sharḥ al-Mukhtār / / كتاب الاختيار في شرح المختار /

Author:

Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1202 or 1203-1284 / موصلي، عبد الله بن محمود

Abdullah Ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Date:

1357

fourteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 342, ii leaves: paper ; 304 x 210 (210 x 150) mm. bound to 305 x 225 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 5a). The title appears in the preamble as "al-Ikhtiyār" (fol. 5b, l. 13).
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with larger script for headings; use of red for re-inking and text-stops. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān). Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1-4 are later additions (European paper with watermark, "Tre Lune"), with inscriptions on fol. 1a, and a table of...
Illuminated title page executed in gold and blue, green, and red (fol. 5a): Panel divided in three parts, with an upper panel mentioning the title, a central lobed roundel with the statement of responsibility, and a lower panel with the name of the patron. Small roundel on the left margin of the upper part of the panel.
Patronage: Copied for (bi-rasm) Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī (illuminated title page, fol. 5a).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 25 or 15 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 758 [March 1357] by Sulayman, known as Abū al-Rabīʻ (fol. 341b).
From the books of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Jalīl, 1143 H. (fol. 1a, with impression of two seals). Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Keyword:

History

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Islamic Empire

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

slipcases

Sources

New Jersey--Princeton

Hanafites

Thirteenth century