Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3994Y

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DS ID:

DS28722

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3994Y

Title:

Tanwīr al-Maṭāliʻ / تنوير المطالع

Author:

Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349 / اصفهاني، محمود بن عبد الرحمن

Mahmud ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Isfahani WIKIDATA

Date:

13--?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 357 leaves : paper ; 188 x 130 (122 x 90) mm. bound to 190 x 143 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 9).
The author's name appears on fol. 1a (later hand).
15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream to orange glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible; frame-ruled. Fol. 59-75 and 84-100 are later replacements (glazed European paper) written in a poor script. Some leaves are missing (e.g. first and last leaves of the first quire, see between fol. 8 and 9). The quires are numbered (see fol. 9a...
Label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover with inscription in Roman script: "Y98". Two labels pasted on the upper cover with inscription in Arabic script, respectively "sh" and "401". Traces of a label (vertical) on the spine.
R. Mach dates this copy from the 8th cent. H.
Waqf al-Madrasah al-Murādīyah (see stamp on fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Waqf

Books

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Logic, Medieval

Early works

Urmawī, Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1198-1283. Maṭāliʻ al-anwār

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947934003506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/703acd4f-1bfe-481a-a2e0-13373e46f774/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University