Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 108B

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DS ID:

DS29279

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 108B

Title:

Tarjamat al-Zabūr al-sharīf / ترجمة الزبور الشريف

Date:

1672

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 118 leaves : paper ; 215 x 162 (125 x 87) mm. bound to 212 x 170 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
9 long lines per page. Written in medium small naskh, using black ink with some red for punctuation and decoration of the headings. European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation with pencil using Western numerals.
The text proper seems to end on fol. 115a, followed by biographical details about David (ff. 115a-117a).
Copied by al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Masadī on 18(?) Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1083 ("mā khalat min shahr Rabīʻ al-anwar 12 yawman", colophon, fol. 117b, ending with verses).
This text is identical with the text published in part by L. Cheikho in Mélanges de la Faculté orientale de l'Université Saint-Joseph (Beyrouth), IV (1910): pp. 47-56, except that in our copy, the psalms are not called "sūrah". For other versions of the "Islamicized psalms", see Krarup, Ove Chr. Auswahl Pseudo-Davidischer Psalmen. Köbenhavn : Gad, 1909; Verzeichnis der orientalichen...
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946956593506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/20c79a54-ce48-4932-80ff-3ea73b71d292/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University