Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 156H.

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DS ID:

DS2535

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 156H.

Title:

Kitāb al-Riyāḍ al-anīqah fī al-nikāt wa-al-ashʻār al-raqīqah.

Date:

17--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 170 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (165 x 105) mm. bound to 204 x 155 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 179 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated gilt headpiece. Fol. 1b and 2a are frame-ruled in double gold lines.
Description: Rubricated ; MS contains some red, green and yellow paper ; watermarks (grapes, design incorporating a heart) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 13-32 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page occur a statement about the Caliph ʻUmar, a statement about telling the truth and another that the owner of the collection and its copyist is Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻAṭṭār al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1140 1727/8. After the colophon are six verses of poetry, and an amplification (takhmīs) by the shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī. On the inside of the...
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Autographs (Provenance)

Headbands

Early works

Watermarks

illuminated manuscripts

Colored papers

Arabic literature

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568913506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/92afe3a4-c208-4759-bfb6-494b26e3e25a/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University