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.
- Date:
- 22 Shaʻbān 1000 June 3, 1592
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567733506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2a7e5353-f3db-4cdf-a16e-131835451e1d/manifest
- Holding Institution:
