Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 61H

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2456

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 61H

Title:

al-Jazl al-muʻtamad al-mufīd. / الجزل المعتمد المفيد.

Jazl al-muʻtamad al-mufīd

Date:

22 Shaʻbān 1000 June 3, 1592

seventh century (dates CE) AAT

eighth century (dates CE) AAT

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 213 leaves : paper ; 220 x 144 (150 x 88) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 ; catchwords ; foliation in red in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Title page and first page illuminated. Title page frame-ruled with gold and blue. Title page includes a headpiece in gold, dark brown, light blue surrounding the author's name. The first page of the text has a gold headpiece with blue and white decoration and gold and blue frame-ruling. Folio 2a has gold and blue frame; subsequent folios have a blue single-line frame. Codex...
Description: Red, black and green headings throughout ; MS is rare ; MS in fair condition, many folios are worm-eaten with some mended.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue ; verse separators in red or green.
Marginal notes. On folio 128 there is a ʻʻpoetical treeʼʼ in praise of al-Malik al-Nāṣir. MS of importance for the historical study of the Rasūlid period. The author occupied a teaching position in the Jihādīyah School at Taʻizz and in the Niẓāmīyah at Zabīd. He also acted as judge in the latter town.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 22 Shaʻbān 1000 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sammān (fol. 213b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ownership statements on title page, including one from ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shakīr? written in a decorative frame above the title. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Autographs

illuminated manuscripts

Colored papers

Poetry

New Jersey--Princeton

Nāṣir Aḥmad, Sultan of Yemen, -1424

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567733506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University