Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 838H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3002

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 838H.

Title:

Mafātīḥ al-jinān wa-maṣābīḥ al-janān.

Place:

al-Qusṭanṭīnīyah

Istanbul TGN

Date:

Jumādá al-Ūlá 1145 October 1732

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 208 leaves : paper ; 215 x 151 (142 x 82) mm bound to 211 x 150 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes and glosses. Earlier foliation in ink indicates 9 missing folios before folio 3, and 121 missing before folio 4. Inscription, extract from Tafsīr al-ʻuyūn al-ṣughrá, and table of contents on preliminary leaves. Illegible title on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + (2) + i + 208 (begins with number 3) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text commented upon is overlined in red ; watermarks (unidentified; roman-alphabet letters "TR"; countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece of gold, red, blue, white and violet (fol. 2b). Opening page is frame-ruled in gold and has gold circle dividers in the text.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed beginning of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1145 in Constantinople by Ibrāhīm Muṣṭafā (fol. 207b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Watermarks

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Hanafites

Imāmʹzādah, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1097 or 1098-1177 or 1178. Shirʻat al-Islām

Islamic law

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963581033506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f280a3ae-2ef1-4b67-b687-f31dcc38d70a/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University