Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 152H.

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DS ID:

DS2533

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 152H.

Title:

Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī maḥāsin al-ashʻār wa-nawādir al-akhbār.

Date:

Muḥarram 1084 April/May 1673

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 125 leaves : paper ; 203 x 154 (140 x 90) mm. bound to 204 x 155 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 125 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Written in naskhi ; vowel signs ; rubricated ; watermarks (crown?, fleur-de-lis?) ; MS in good condition but some folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. On the title page are two verses of the Qurʼān and several verses of poetry. After the colophon is a statement that the MS was copied for Aḥmad al-Ḥusayn ibn Amīr al-Muʼminīn al-Manṣūr billāh al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad (fol. 124a), two verses of poetry by Ibn al-Muʻtazz 247-296 861-908, two others by Kushājim, 351 962, two verses by Muḥsin...
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Muḥarram 1084 (fol. 124a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
On the title page are an Arabic seal impression inscribed ʻʻand my success is through none other than God,ʼʼ another obliterated seal impression and several autographs of owners, one dated 1123. Autograph of an owner dated 1280 1863/4 (fol. 124b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs (Provenance)

Stamps

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

Arabic literature

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568873506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ef57f1c3-9bf8-45aa-81ca-d81e4ac81f3e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University