Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 164H.

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DS ID:

DS2244

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 164H.

Title:

Kitāb Hadīyat al-faqīr li-Ḥaḍrat al-Wazīr /

Place:

Burj, ʻAkkār Lebanon

Aakkâr TGN

Date:

24 Ṣafar 1229 February 15, 1814

third century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 203, (1) leaves : paper ; 214 x 150 (70 x 100-110) mm. bound to 210 x 170 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 203 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b) consisting of two large roundels in orange and black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield, laurel leaves) ; MS in fair condition with some worm damage.
Layout: 22-24 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes. On the title page are two shahādahs. After the colophon and on the four following folios are several poems of poetry in praise of this book and the party for whom it was copied, evidently a vizir and a descendant of the prophet; following this are several verses of poetry by various authors and a medical prescription. On the three following folios is a brief medical treatise...
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 24 Ṣafar 1229 by Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī in Burj, ʻAkkār (fol.195b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Obliterated autograph of an owner on title page. On folio 203b are two reading statements dated 1279 1862/3. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Early works

Headbands

illuminated manuscripts

Watermarks

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic literature

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99116506953506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/880dae5b-f0b1-4bdc-8f93-936fa74e1563/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University