Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 174Hq

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DS ID:

DS29593

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 174Hq

Title:

Mirʼāt al-jinān wa-ʻibrat al-yaqẓān fī maʻrifat ḥawādith al-zamān wa-taqallub aḥwāl al-insān [wa-tā]rīkh baʻḍ al-mashhūrīn al-aʻyān / مرآة الجنان وعبرة اليقظان في معرفة حوادث الزمان وتقلب احوال الانسان وتاريخ بعض المشهورين الاعيان

Author:

Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367 / يافعي، عبد الله بن اسعد، -1367

Abdullah bin Asaad Al-Yafi'i WIKIDATA

Date:

1564-1565].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 484 leaves : paper ; 285 x 200 (220 x 128) mm bound to 290 x 215 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 484 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 long lines per page.
Description: Written in a casual medium small script in black ink with use of red for headings and re-inking ; glazed paper with chain lines and laid lines visible.
Origin: Juzʼ 1 copied on 18 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 972 (colophon, fol. 265a); juzʼ 2 copied on 6 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 973 (colophon, fol. 484a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

History

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic Empire

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947304083506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/21d2b126-bb05-4fd8-982f-7d1f31e3167d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University