Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 733Hq

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DS ID:

DS2327

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 733Hq

Title:

Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār. / مجمع بحار الانوار في غرائب التنزيل ولطائف الاخبار

Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār

Place:

Patan India

Patan TGN

Date:

11 Ramaḍān 976 March 9, 1569

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sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 454 leaves : paper ; 324 x 212 (254 x 135) mm. bound to 330 x 228 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon of part 2 (al-safar al-thānī, fol. 451a).
Entries in black in the margin by the same hand. No. "24" and "255" in Western numerals on the upper cover pastedown and endpaper. Inscription on modern spine label: "jild-i awwal ...".
Collation: Paper ; fol. a (blue endpaper) + v (endpapers) + 454 (fol. 451b-453b, blank) + i (endpaper) + a (blue endpaper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 long lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in two scripts: fol. 1a-142b are written in medium small generic script with elements of taʻlīq ; fol. 143a-451a are written in thick shikastah nastaʻlīq ; rubricated ; Indian paper (flax).
Origin: Copied on 11 Ramaḍān 976 in Patan (colophon part 2, fol. 451a).
The date mentioned at the end of the text might be the date when the text was completed by the author, and not the date of copy (see lithograph Lahore, 1314 1897). P. Hitti suggests that this might be an autograph.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

Hadith

Dictionaries

Early works

Qurʼan

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947102503506421

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