Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 979H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2379

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 979H.

Title:

Kitāb Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid lil-Nasafī /

Date:

1452

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 74 leaves: paper ; 180 x 130 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Inscription "486" in Western numerals in black ink on the pastedown of the upper cover corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs appartenant à la maison E. J. Brill à Leide, no. 979.
Layout: 18 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large script, with Maghribī elements, see the dāl, the fāʼ, and the qāf. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Several inscriptions, including a crossed out ownership statement on fol. 1a.
Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 856 April 21, 1452 by Aḥmad al-Maghribī, known as al-Farwī (colophon, fol. 74a).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Islamic bookbinding

Gold tooled bindings

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islam--Doctrines

ʻAqāʼid (Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad)

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951749763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d46f5db-b0bc-4cbc-b031-e3137ed88646/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University