Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 748Y

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DS ID:

DS29978

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 748Y

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Kitāb Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-abnāʼ al-zamān mimmā tha[bata bi-al-na]ql aw al-samāʼ aw athbatahu [al-ʻiyān / الجزء الرابع من كتاب وفيات الاعيان وابناء الزمان مما ثبت بالنقل او السماء او اثبته العيان

Author:

Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282 / ابن خلكان

Ibn Khallikan WIKIDATA

Date:

1334

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 184, i leaves: paper ; 255 x 180 (190 x 120) mm. bound to 255 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 2a).
21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. The text is vocalized. The entries are repeated on the margins in red ink, with vocalization in black ink (see fol. 2b). Thick light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Frame-ruled. Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān) in gold, blue, green and red on fol. 2a (mended). The beginning of the text is partly...
Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) on fol. 2a : Cartouche on a circular medallion, both framed in gold outlined in black, with a small medallion on the left side of the cartouche. The cartouche has the beginning of the title written in gold outlined in black in cloud bands left blank and outlined in black on a red hatched ground with arabesque of leaves left blank and outlined in black. The...
Collation: Paper, fol. 184, i ; 1 (later added flyleaf, European paper ; fol. 1 in the modern foliation in pencil) 110 (-1, before fol. 2) 1710 1814 + i (later added flyleaf ; same paper as fol. 1; blank) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 11a).
Copy completed on 29 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 734 [Jan. 7, 1334] by Aḥmad ibn Aqash al-Ḥarrānī (colophon, fol. 184b, followed by four lines of poetry).
Ownership statements on fol. 1a (later addition) and fol. 2a, with seal of Sulṭān Muṣṭafá III, r. 1171-87/1757-74 (see Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en écriture arabe, p. 361, no. 121). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Islamic bookbinding

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Dictionaries

New Jersey--Princeton

Muslims

Biographies

Early works

Mustafa III, Sultan of the Turks, 1717-1773

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951696563506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/998931f5-d7cd-4ace-99b9-b293ea5ac8d2/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University