Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 587H

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2744

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 587H

Title:

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt / / عجائب المخلوقات /

Wonders of Creation

Author:

Kisāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 11th century / كسائي، محمد بن عبد الله، active 11th century

Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī WIKIDATA

Date:

1700-1899

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 200 leaves : paper ; 226 x 165 (165 x 90-130) mm. bound to 226 x 176 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon; roman-alphabet letters "AG" and "EAN"; three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
On the title page the book is described as ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt and is erroneously ascribed to al-Māwardī.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Islamic cosmology

Early works

Prophets, Pre-Islamic

Creation (Islam)

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573673506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University