Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H.

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DS ID:

DS2418

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H.

Title:

Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah /

Place:

al-Qāhirah

Cairo TGN

Date:

Jumādá al-Akhir 588 June/July 1192

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.
Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).
Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated 1 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī? dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Stamps

Arabic poetry

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963566963506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cd3166f1-299d-426b-8529-b059e06b6762/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University