Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 5953Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29963

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 5953Y

Title:

Kitāb al-Mubtadaʼāt fī khalq al-araḍīn wa-al-samawāt wa-aḥwāl al-nabīyīn wa-al-mursalīn / / كتاب المبتدات في خلق الارضين والسموات واحوال النبيين والمرسلين /

Author:

Kisāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 11th century / كسائي، محمد بن عبد الله

Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī WIKIDATA

Date:

1851

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 208 leaves: paper ; 235 x 166 (171 x 115) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
25 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and re-inking. European glazed paper with watermark. Fol. 201b and beginning of fol. 202a blank, with note mentioning that a fol. was missing in the exemplar.The paper has been frame-ruled. Inscription in Roman script on a spine label (vertical): "Ilziz"(?).
Collation: Paper, fol. 208 ; 1-2010 2110 (-2 after fol. 207 in the modern foliation, = 208) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using arabic numerals in the form "K 21" (see fol. 200a).
Copy completed on 24 Shaʻbān 1267 [June 24, 1851] (colophon, fol. 206a).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Nineteenth century

Islamic cosmology

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Prophets, Pre-Islamic

Creation (Islam)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950284763506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University