Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 388 Folio

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DS ID:

DS6479

Shelfmark:

MS Or 388 Folio

Title:

Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr / كتاب ديوان مصر

Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr

Author:

Vella, Giuseppe, -1815

Giuseppe Vella WIKIDATA

Place:

Palermo, Italy

Palermo TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1793

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 216, iv leaves : paper ; 282 x 210 (190 x 135) mm, bound to 282 x 215 mm

Note:

Decoration: Title page decoration of a larger rectangle with knotwork frame divided by another knotwork line with the basmallah above the line and the title in a circular medallion centered in the lower square (p. 1).
Layout: 30 long lines.
Leaves are 210 mm mounted in sheets 280 mm.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Composed and published in 1793, in Palermo, Italy.
Script: Written in a maghribi in reddish ink; pointed.
Shelfmark: MS Or 388 Folio.
Title from title page and introduction (p. 2).
Sold by Probsthain & Co.; listed as number 1345 in Probsthain's Oriental Catalogue no. 20, part II (1910) (note laid in).

Keyword:

forgeries (derivative objects)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Decorated paper bindings

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Islamic bindings

Leather bindings

Flap bindings

Manuscripts

Italy--Sicily

History

Manuscripts, Arabic

Forgeries

Forgery of manuscripts

Specimens

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10421986

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_12993928_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library