Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 489H.

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DS ID:

DS2395

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 489H.

Title:

Taʻrīfāt.

Date:

1559

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 159 leaves : paper ; 156 x 108 (115 x 58) mm. bound to 158 x 120 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
On title page (fol. 2a) the work wrongly attributed to Ibn Kemal. Short inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Fol. 154b-156a have a short text entitled "Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥudūd", also providing definitions, copied by the same scribe, Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh, and dated the last 10 days of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 971 (1563).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 159 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in a single line of red ink.
Description: Written in small informal taʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; substantial water damage through the entire ms, with a lot of ink duplication and some loss of text.
Origin: Copied by Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 967 (1559) -- colophon (fol. 153a).
Seal impression (fol. 155b). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Stamps

Dictionaries

Blind tooled bindings

Sufism

Islam--Terminology

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islamic philosophy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952980453506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/36aaaeae-dd16-4a10-ae76-2ecc20c2193e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University