Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3814Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS17128

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3814Y

Title:

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-akhyār fī bayān aqsām al-akhbār / / كتاب تحفة الاخيار في بيان اقسام الاخبار /

Author:

Ibn al-Muʼayyad, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 1204 / ابن المؤيد، احمد بن محمد

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Muʼayyad WIKIDATA

Place:

Sulaymānshahr

Beyşehir TGN

Date:

1305

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 59 leaves: paper ; 220 x 150 (150 x 110) mm. bound to 220 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand) in black ink, with use of red for entries. The text is vocalized. Dark cream soft paper, hardly translucid, with a few chain lines visible. The text is collated. Several inscriptions on fol. 3a-b, including rubāʻīyāt in Persian. Majority of quinions. Stained with humidity.
Collation: Paper, fol. 59 ; 110 (+2, beginning of quire) 2-510 66.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Sulaymānshahr [nowadays: Beyşehir] on Friday end of Muḥarram 705 [Aug. 1305] (fol. 59a).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

Turkey--Beyşehir

Hadith--Language, style

Quatrains, Persian

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954935463506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University