Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1043Hq

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DS ID:

DS29581

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1043Hq

Title:

Hādhā Kitāb Qurrat al-ʻayn wa-al-bāqiyāt al-ṣāliḥāt / هذا كتاب قرة العين والباقيات الصالحات

Scribe:

Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, active 18th century / محمد صالح بن احمد، active 18th century

Date:

Shaʻbān 1123 [September/October 1711

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 leaves : paper ; 307 x 199 (204 x 137) mm bound to 303 x 196 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Devotional extracts and verses (fol. 85a-85b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 86 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, countermark roman-alphabet initials "EA" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in red and black (fol. 1b).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Shaʻbān 1123 by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad (fol. 84b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Watermarks

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Sufism--Doctrines

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963580243506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6bf12a35-b3c4-49dd-b47d-9b0f9143cc87/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University