Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2692

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218H.

Title:

Kitāb al-lktifāʼ.

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (213, (1), 216, (1)) leaves : paper ; 253 x 182 (175 x 113) mm. bound to 252 x 173 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 + (1), 216 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece with vignette in red, gold and blue in both volumes. Headpiece in volume 1 carries the author's name, in vol. 2 "ghazwat Badr al-kubrá". Illuminated colophons in both volumes with vignettes in red, gold and blue. In both volumes, opening folios and colophons frame-ruled in gold and blue.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition but some folios are worm-eaten and there is some staining. MS is rare.
Layout: 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (vol. 1, fol. 213a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

History

Headbands

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Gold tooled bindings

Command of troops

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Manuscripts, Arabic

Caliphs

Islamic Empire

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963572603506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/25a89604-aeed-4186-83d4-eb0506ab03b1/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University