Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 538H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2302

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 538H.

Title:

Majmūʻah ḥisābīyah.

Date:

not after 1842

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic and Turkish

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 236 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 195 x 133-145 mm. bound to 195 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title from lower edge of text block.
Blank folios between works. Partial table of contents on fol. 1a dated 1282. Small drawing of ships on fol. 174b. Kabikaj (invocation against bookworms) on 173a. Forty folios of fawāʼid at the end of the volume.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 236 + iii ; catchwords on some texts ; quires signed: 2-8, last marking is on fol. 74 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals ; folios 187-194 also foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals as 23, 3-8, 28.
Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; many different papers used throughout the MS ; watermarks (eagle; coat-of-arms; coat-of-arms with animal and roman-alphabet letters "BG"; flag with double penant; crown; unidentified circular design; roman-alphabet letters "IheartG...IN"; eagle; roman-alphabet letters "G.C." and "...INI...
Origin: Risālah-ʼi Saynūs Copied 1208 (fol. 112b) -- Incomplete treatise on astronomy Copied 1093 (fol. 168b)
Seal impression of al-Sayyid Ḥusayn Jamāl with date 1258 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Headbands

tables (documents)

diagrams

Stamps

Watermarks

magic squares

scientific illustrations (images)

Illustrated works

Astronomy, Arab

Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb (ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn)

Almucantar

Persian language--Grammar

Islamic calendar

Ventilation

Arithmetic

Numerology

Astronomy--Charts, diagrams, etc--Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic

Mathematics, Arab

Smoking (Islamic law)

Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār (Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad)

Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99116513943506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1b055c7a-e906-4fbe-b7a0-e56dcbcc6b55/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University