Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 648H.

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DS ID:

DS2365

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 648H.

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Zād al-masīr fī ʻilm al-tafsīr /

Place:

Baghdād

Baghdad TGN

Date:

1286 or 1287

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 206 leaves: paper ; 255 x 175 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 255 x 190 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). The title also appears in the colophon (fol. 206a).
Title and table of contents by a later hand on the margins of fol. 1a. Title on the tail of the text block (hardly legible). Spine label (horizontal) with inscription "12" in Arabic numerals.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 206 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-20¹⁰ 21¹⁰ (-3, after fol. 206) ; the quires are numbered in black ink, using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī (see fol. 10a) and "thāmin al-awwal" (see fol. 70a) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of larger script and red ink re-inking for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (frame-ruled).
Decoration: Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, white, black and blue (fol. 1a).
According to the title page and the colophon, copied by Idrīs ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-mutaṣawwif from an autograph in Baghdād, 685 1286 or 7 (see fol. 1a and 206a).
Erased seal on the margin of fol. 206a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Sources

illuminated manuscripts

Doublures

History

Qurʼan

Manuscripts, Arabic

1100-1199

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951434343506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aeadb606-fe38-4d5a-b8b9-6070300a0f8b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University