Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3856Y
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS15670
- Shelfmark:
- Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3856Y
- Title:
- Kitāb al-Tawḍīḥ
- Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347 / محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود
- Place:
- Cairo
- Date:
- 1384
- Language:
- ara
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 177 leaves: paper ; 215 x 158 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 215 x 170 mm.
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. i-iv, and fol. 176, are later added leaves (European paper with watermark). Marginal annotations by several hands ; annotations on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves 9see between fol. 20...
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 68". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥ 144".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Cairo ("al-Qāhirah"), in the Khānqāh al-Saʻīd al-Shaykhūnī, on a Wednesday, in the middle decade of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 786 [May 1384] (fol. 174a, followed by verses of poetry in Persian).
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Rajab al-Busnawī, dated '43; of Aḥmad Najīb, dated 1288 H.; of Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī. On fol. (i)a: Note mentioning the beginning of the memorizing of this text (mudhākarah), dated 1288 H. [1872], and signed apparently "Najīb" (see ownership statement on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953948353506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c011871-2785-46d6-9edd-9c7252b28c61/manifest
- Holding Institution:
