Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 72H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2466

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 72H.

Title:

Hādhā al-Dīwān Rawḍat al-ʻirfān wa-nuzʹhat al-insān.

Date:

16--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 127 leaves : paper ; 231 x 145 (185 x 95) mm. bound to 228 x 158 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 127 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with floral drawing and a gilt roundel on fol. 1b. Fol. 2a frame-ruled in gold.
Description: Readings in red ; MS in poor condition, worm-eaten and foxed, loose folios and binding. MS is extremely rare.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Ms. codex.
Though full name of author does not appear in MS, study of persons mentioned reveals that he lived in eleventh Muslim century; and in eulogizing the Prophet he designates himself as Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣiddīq. Probably this copy was made during lifetime of author.
Title from heading (fol. 2b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Leather doublures

Poetry

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Gold tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567843506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aaf4b76c-6163-4ca5-9bdd-7dc1c5768508/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University