Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 998H.

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DS ID:

DS2747

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 998H.

Title:

Kitāb Bahjat al-nāẓīrīn wa-āyāt al-mustadillīn /

Date:

1?28 1619 or 1716 or 1813

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 305 leaves : paper ; 202 x 142 (150-175 x 85-100) mm bound to 204 x 146 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and summaries. The author states in the introduction that the work was based on 500 sources. Note on the title page that it contains poetry, tales, stories of the prophets, lessons and traditions.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 305 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; written on several kinds of paper and apparently by different hands ; watermarks (three crescents, grapes, other unidentified) ; MS in fair condition, stained with water and mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 25 Rajab? 1?28 by Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 305b).
Ownership signature: Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān al-Quṣaybatī al-Ṣāliḥī dated 1263 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

Watermarks

Autographs

Islamic cosmology

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573743506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0465dfdf-6a05-4dd4-8b1d-befe662f0ed5/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University