Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 590H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2748

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 590H.

Title:

Kitāb al-Majālis.

Date:

Rajab 972 February 1565

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: (1), 122, (1) leaves : paper ; 208 x 156 (150 x 112) mm. bound to 207 x 165 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. (1)a).
Title also appears on upper edge of text block. Some stray writing on the title page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 122 + (1) ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red and black ; full vowel signs on fol. 1b-64a ; watermarks (anchor topped by a star) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied beginning of Rajab 972 by Jaʻfar ibn Muṣṭafá al-Nakdahʹwī (fol. 122a).
Signature of Ḥusayn obscured; reading statement for ʻAlī ibn Ḍayf dated 1036 with his tughrah (fol. (1)a); signature of Aḥmad ibn Nūḥ? (fol. 122a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Watermarks

Blind tooled bindings

tuǧras

Islamic cosmology

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573753506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6ed3248e-8d53-40b5-805c-e975f52f26d3/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University