Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 55H.
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2452
- Shelfmark:
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 55H.
- Title:
- Kitāb Alḥān al-sawājiʻ /
- Date:
- 19 Muḥarram 1305 October 7, 1887?
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 321 leaves : paper ; 192 x 134 (155 x 90) mm. bound to 198 x 140 mm.
- Note:
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 321 + 1 ; catchwords ; pagination in red ink using Hindi-Arabic numerals ; quires signed 1-32 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS is in good condition and very neat ; MS is rare.
Layout: 20-22 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page are four verses of poetry by a transcriber, Ramaḍān al-ʻAṭīfī. On four folios before the title page is an index of the names in the MS; following is a statement to the effect that MS was written at the request and at the expense of Aḥmad Wihbi Wahbah, a bookseller in Ḥalab. He also collated the MS himself.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 19 Muḥarram 1305 by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn/al-Mardīn Muḥammad Rāghib (fol. 321a).
Title from title page (fol. 5a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567643506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4a746337-0bc8-4fa5-8d62-b7cf288f3877/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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