Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 414H.

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DS ID:

DS2641

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 414H.

Title:

Kitāb Maʻāhid al-tanṣīṣ sharḥ abyāt al-Talkhīṣ /

Physical Description:

Extent: 356 leaves : paper ; 272 x 169 (185 x 105) mm bound to 273 x 200 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On the three folios before the title page are a table of contents, lines of poetry, several lengthy passages including a succession list of the Yemeni Taharid rulers, a passage about the Ghassanid rulers of Yemen and another about the Qarmatians. Folio following colophon has a passage about the sons of Noah.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 356 ; catchwords ; pagination in pencil using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; ruled, a few folios frame-ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten and mended; several folios are defective.
Decoration: Illuminated title page with blue title on yellow ground with red decoration. Headpiece illuminated with gold, blue, red and black. Fol. 1b-2a frame-ruled in gold, black, blue and red. Fol. 2b-3a frame-ruled in red.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Poetry

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Early works

illuminated manuscripts

Arabic language--Rhetoric

Arabic poetry

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338. Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963571543506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23f6826e-1216-4edd-a57d-98535419582d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University