Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 101H.

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DS ID:

DS2486

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 101H.

Title:

Tarjīʻ al-aṭyār bi-muraqqiṣ al-ashʻār /

Date:

between 1849 and 1872?

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 290 leaves : paper ; 223 x 159 (180 x 130) mm bound to 230 x 157 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 290 ; catchwords in red ink ; between fol. 139 and 140 are 8 blank folios ; between fol. 177 and 179 are 2 blank folios ; between fol. 279 and 280 are two blank folios ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; headings and verse separators in red and yellow ink ; MS in fair condition, binding partially detached from text block ; title page oriented upside-down to remainder of text.
Layout: 14-27 lines per page. Number of columns varies ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
Marginal glosses. On folio 164 is a poem by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĪsá written on a chess-board and readable only by following the movement of the ʻʻknightʼʼ in the game. Title page has a statement that the poetical works of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī were originally compiled by his son Muḥammed, and on folio 53 we learn that the son died before the father.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Headbands

Poetry

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic poetry

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568113506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/efd3d20c-2a78-47bb-988b-e91701f4d449/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University