Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 308Y
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26646
- Shelfmark:
- Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 308Y
- Title:
- Risālah ilá al-Bīrūnī ; Kitāb al-Mubāḥathāt ... [etc. / رسالة الى البيروني ؛ كتاب المباحثات ... الخ
- Date:
- 1279
- Language:
- ara
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 311 leaves : paper ; 240 x 160 (175 x 115) mm. bound to 242 x 170 mm.
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Statement that this was copied from a copy by Mawlānā Khusrawshāhī. The copyist is commenting on the copy he is copying from (see fol. 12b). Fol. 143 is a later replacement.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 310 + iii ; catchwords ; collation notes ; quires signed ; foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals (number irregularity jumps from 299 back to 100) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals in lower left.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written by one hand in a very clear medium small naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; some leaves are mended, with the text missing often re-written on the repair. From fol. 181 on, hole in each leaf (the text missing is re-written on the repair up to fol. 269, from there on, loss of text).
Paper: Dark cream paper with laid (and chain?, see fol. 302) lines visible.
Origin: [Risālah ilá Abī Rayḥān] Copied in Shawwāl 677 (colophon, fol. 12b) -- [Kitāb fī marātib al-ʻulūm] Copied at the end of Ramaḍān 6[--]? (colophon, fol. 89b) -- [Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Anūlūṭīqī al-ūlá] Copied on 1 Shawwāl 677 (colophon, fol. 175b).
Ownership statement on fol. 3a. Ownership stamp impression of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Mūsá ibn Jaʻfar Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʼ (1850-1931) in violet ink dated 1334 [1906] on several leaves. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947825263506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ef0e865d-28b9-42f7-8855-72170808262f/manifest
- Holding Institution:
