Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 91H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2481

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 91H.

Title:

Muẓhir al-barakāt.

Date:

not before 1781

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 136, (1) leaves : paper ; 243 x 147 (200 x 105) mm. bound to 245 x 155 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 136 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
In the introduction the author explains this special type of poetry and states that putting stories and events into verse is very natural to the Persian tongue and is called Mathnawi, but that it is natural neither to the Arabic nor the Indian tongues. The book is divided into seven divisions, each called a daftar. On folio 131 and the five following folios are a short biography of the author...
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.
Ms. codex.
Title from label on case.
Autograph of an owner, Muḥammad Shawqī Afandī, and his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Poetry

Headbands

Stamps (Provenance)

Autographs (Provenance)

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568063506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5a855f04-11d4-447c-b0f3-71281df2fe2f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University