Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 768

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29568

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 768

Title:

al-Kitāb al-sādis ʻashar min sīrat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir / الكتاب السادس عشر من سيرة الملك الظاهر

Place:

between 18--? and 192-?

Date:

1800-1929

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

twentieth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 75 leaves : paper, ill. ; 202 x 149 mm. bound to 202 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in large naskhī in black ink on white European unglazed, laid paper. In two parts; foliated in Arabic script 7-43, 1-35. Pencil drawing of protagonist on fol. 75b. No date, but likely from the 19th or early 20th century.
Name of owner (and possibly copiest) on fol. 1a and 39a: Muḥammad Luṭfī al-Rahūnjī, owner of al-Maktabah al-Adabīyah in Sūq al-Miskīn. Owner's seal of Jaʻfar Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Madanī on fol. 1a.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Nineteenth century

Fiction

Baybars I, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1223?-1277

Egypt

Kings and rulers

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963925953506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University