Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 591H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2749

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 591H.

Title:

Rabīʻ al-anwār.

Date:

Jumādá al-Ūlá 796 March 1394

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 108 leaves : paper ; 198 x 144 (150 x 95) mm bound to 197 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. On the title page occurs a table of contents. The edges were trimmed, and to preserve the notes some of them were folded. Fāʼidah follows the text with a magic square and magic alphabet letters.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 108 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; author's name, added later, written in green ink on fol. 1b ; folios 97-107 are different type of paper ; watermarks (fol. 1-96: crown-star-crescent, roman-alphabet initial countermark "VG?" with clover in between; fol. 98-107: coat-of-arms with a snake) ; MS in good condition; mended. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copied middle of Jumādá al-Ūlá 796 (fol. 107b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Gold tooled bindings

magic squares

Headbands

Blind tooled bindings

Islamic cosmology

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fae33a90-99c7-4e1e-9740-a27b686ac28b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University