Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 318H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2576

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 318H.

Title:

Iftitāḥ ʻalá al-Miṣbāḥ.

Date:

963 1555 or 1556

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 80 leaves : paper ; 172 x 126 (130 x 75-80) mm. bound to 172 x 131 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes. On back of first page and folio before occur several Persian notes, a kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), and a quotation about the MS from Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 582/3. Following the colophon is a short Persian text, a few signatures and other inscriptions. Labels attached to upper cover with the title and "16".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red on folios 1-37.
Description: Watermarks (serpent on cross above bull's head later flyleaf only; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied in 963 (fol. 77a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Headbands

Blind tooled bindings

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid, 1144-1213. Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw

Arabic language--Grammar

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963570003506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bdaefaca-5992-48a9-bd66-1ec13faf2846/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University