Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 189Lq

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DS ID:

DS28128

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 189Lq

Title:

Kitāb Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ / کتاب اخوان الصفا

Rasāʼil

Author:

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ / اخوان الصفاء

Brethren of Purity WIKIDATA

Scribe:

ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Ṣafāy Chalabī, active 18th century / عبد القادر بن صفاي چلبي، active 18th century

Date:

22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1127 [December 19, 1715

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 80 leaves : paper ; 318 x 215 (260 x 170) mm bound to 323 x 228 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1b).
A few marginal lines. In the colophon the work is attributed to Ibn al-Qāsim Maslamah ibn Aḥmad, known as al-Majrīṭi, 398 [1007/8]. This is obviously a mistake, since the work is of composite authorship. al-Majrīṭi, however, is associated with the introduction of the work into Spain. Long inscription labelled "Ḥāshiyah wāqiʻah ʻalá ʻibārat Qāḍī [obscured]" (fol. 1a). Description of contents...
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 80 + iii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to the colophon copy completed 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1127 by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Ṣafāy Chalabī ibn Ṭāhā Afandī (fol. 80a).
Ownership signature: Mullā Aḥmad ibn Mullā Maḥmūd al-Kabīsī[?], Imām Jāmiʻ Qabr ʻAlī dated 1246 (fol. 1b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Keyword:

Autographs

Watermarks

Science

Early works

Islamic philosophy

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islam

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963576343506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/51e7307f-728a-4355-97b2-6c684e894b15/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University