Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 580H.

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DS ID:

DS2353

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 580H.

Title:

Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān /

Date:

1438

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 278 leaves: paper ; 261 x 178 (185 x 132) mm. bound to 261 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Fol. 1 is a later addition on European glazed paper, with several inscriptions, including prayers, a tradition transmitted from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib on women, two short excerpts attributed to Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Dhahabī, relating events in Damascus in 646 H. and 693 H. Several inscriptions onf ol. 2a, on mentioning the date 1074 H. After the colophon, on fol. 277a, excerpt from Abu...
Collation: Paper ; fol. 277 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red ; dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible ; one leaf missing between fol. 8 and 9.
Origin: Copy completed by Yūsuf Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī, known as al-Ḥafīnī (Hitti reads Jafnī) on 12? Rabīʻ al-Awwal 842 Sept. 1438 (colophon, fol. 276b, followed by a note by the copyist explaining the change of script).
Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd Yāsīn; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Shirābātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥamuwaynī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd YāSīn(?) ; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-SHRBātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ḤMū--nī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islamic Empire

New Jersey--Princeton

1300-1399

Zoology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950820293506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f6e0ce35-a765-417e-bbbc-861ffd022c63/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University