Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 149H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2528

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 149H.

Title:

Kitāb Yatīmat al-dahr.

Date:

not after 1727

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 41 leaves : paper ; 198 x 137 (150 x 85) mm. bound to 198 x 140 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 41 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red with double frame in blue and red. (fol. 1b)
Description: Written in good naskhi ; full vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes. On title page and on inside of front cover are numerous additions and autographs of owners. On inside of back cover occur a magical table and some smeared writing dated 1158.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ownership autographs include: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥamawī 1140, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥamawī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥamawī 1159, Muḥammad ibn obscured al-Ḥamawī 1182 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Faraḥ? 1187, and a reading statement? dated 1153. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Autographs (Provenance)

Headbands

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Arabic literature

Islamic countries

Manuscripts, Arabic

Religion and politics

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568823506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2144b655-0ff1-4745-8b16-1af2ba1b056b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University