Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4771Y

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DS ID:

DS29901

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4771Y

Title:

Mukhtaṣar al-Alwāḥ / مختصر الالواح

Author:

Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, 1152 or 1153-1191 / سهروردي، يحيى بن حبش

Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi WIKIDATA

Place:

Aḥmadābād

Ahmadābād TGN

Date:

1586

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 51 leaves: paper ; 167 x 100 (111 x 60) mm. bound to 165 x 103 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a).
13 lines per page. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue and gold on fol. 1b (partly cut off). The text is framed within a gold, black and blue border. Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 1a. The first fol. is cut in two, with no apparent loss of text.
Copy completed on 13 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 994 in Aḥmadābād by Shahr? Allāh ibn Shams al-Dīn (colophon in Persian, fol. 50b). The colophon mentions the number of leaves (51).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sixteenth century

India--Ahmadābād

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949497173506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/744df58f-e4f9-40fb-9011-3d5ad522760f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University