Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 218Bq

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DS ID:

DS29602

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 218Bq

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá fī kitābat al-inshāʼ / / الجزء الاول من صبح الاعشى في كتابة الانشاء /

Author:

Qalqashandī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1355 or 1356-1418 / قلقشندي، احمد بن علي

Ahmad al-Qalqashandi WIKIDATA

Place:

London

London TGN

Date:

1874

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 356, ii leaves: paper ; 318 x 198 (205 x 120) mm. bound to 320 x 208 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; larger script for headings. Sheets of paper decorated with a wide arabesque border surrounding a large gilt frame defining the undecorated writing surface.
According to colophon, copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 5 Aylūl [Sept. 5] 1874 by Rizq Allāh ibn Niʻmat Allāh Ḥassūn al-Ḥalabī mawladan al-Lundunī hijratan (fol. 355b).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Nineteenth century

England--London

New Jersey--Princeton

Arabic prose literature

Penmanship, Arabic

Fourteenth century

Writing, Arabic

Codicology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953424133506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/80947bed-781f-418e-8ea3-a00cb0912631/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University