Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 145H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2526

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 145H.

Title:

Kitāb Rawḍ al-ādāb /

Place:

Makkah

Mecca TGN

Date:

11 Muḥarram 1265 December 7, 1848?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 210 leaves : paper ; 258 x 173 (200 x 100-125) mm. bound to 255 x 170 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 210 + ii ; catchwords ; foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink ; quires signed 3-20 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators and some overwriting in red ; watermarks (shield, letters "A C") ; MS in good condition, first and last folios mended.
Layout: 24-32 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On the title page is a statement by the copyist that the present MS has been copied from the original. Folios 49 to 104, 174, 175 and the last are of different kind of paper, and writing is by a later hand. On folio after the colophon is an elegy by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Hajrasi al-Dimyāṭī containing a tārīkh for the year 1265 1848, the date of the death of the Shaykh ʻUthmān...
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 11 Muḥarram 1265 in Mekka by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khālidī (fol. 109b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title page bears a number of ownership signatures, most obscured. One ownership signature for Muḥammad al-Anṣārī is dated 978 which conflicts with the colophon dating of the MS. Acquired form Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs (Provenance)

Headbands

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

Arabic literature

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568793506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5884d8fc-136c-4764-be54-a8f83ee36270/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University