Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4223Y

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DS ID:

DS29856

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4223Y

Title:

Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād ... [etc / برد الاكباد في الاعداد ... الخ

Date:

1664-1668

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 111 leaves : paper ; 195 x 137 (133 x 70) mm bound to 198 x 157 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mention in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Sh 441" (repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover). On fol. 1a: Table of contents by a later hand, mentioning a Risālat ʻibrat al-labīb by al-Ṣafadī which does not appear in the copy.
Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-710 86 92 10-1210 1310 (+1, fol. 109) 142 ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red and green ink. European paper with watermark.
Origin: [Bard al-akbād] Copied on 12 Rajab 1074 by Muḥammad al-Ḥusrī(?) al-Ḥusaynī (colophon, fol. 30b) -- [Kitāb Tarjamat al-kātib] Copied on 2 Shaʻbān 1077 by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḥusaynī al-Bakrī (colophon, fol. 76a) -- [Kitāb Lawʻat al-shākī] Copied on 8 Shaʻbān 1078 by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḥusaynī (colophon, fol. 111b).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

Watermarks

Sajʻ

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Arabic literature

Homosexuality in literature

Erotic literature, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947329893506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d39fc3e-d8be-4a43-881b-518d4959a611/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University