Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 184H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2682

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 184H.

Title:

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-jalīl fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Nīl /

Date:

not before 1595

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 21 leaves : paper, illustration ; 217 x 158 (150 x 75) mm. bound to 222 x 161 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; title page and colophon decorated with a border of alternating black and red motifs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On folio 13a is a sketch of the sources of the Nile. The book is dedicated to al-Amīr al-Khiḍr, the governor of Egypt in the time of the Sultan Muḥammad III, who reigned 1003-1012 1595-1603.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

History

diagrams

Early works

Egypt

Manuscripts, Arabic

Travel

Nile River

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963572393506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b2e677be-b7db-4f75-8db2-f332de41500a/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University