Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 179H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2673

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 179H.

Title:

Kitāb Kawkab al-Rawḍah /

Date:

not after 1576

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: (1), 132 leaves : paper ; 260 x 180 (210 x 130) mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 132 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition but some folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. Evidently the last folio is by a later hand. On the folio preceding the title page is a poem by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Tāwikhī(?) and some other additions. On the page after the colophon and on the folio following occur two verses of poetry in praise of the book, a statement by the author that he composed this work 875 1470, and several...
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title page carries a large number of ownership signatures, some partially erased or overlapping. They include: H? al-Sulṭān dated 984, ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Maʻarrī, one dated 1030, another dated 1095. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Early works

History

Autographs (Provenance)

Egypt--Cairo

Nile River

Manuscripts, Arabic

Egypt--Rawdah Island

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963572263506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5098ebad-4cd0-43a8-a225-c701329be958/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University