Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 388 - FOLIO

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6479

Shelfmark:

MS Or 388 - FOLIO

Title:

Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr

Author:

Vella, Giuseppe, -1815

Giuseppe Vella WIKIDATA

Place:

Palermo, Italy

Palermo TGN

Date:

1793

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 electronic resource (432 unnumbered pages) ; 28 cm

Note:

Original leaves are 210 mm mounted in sheets 280 mm.
Title from title page and introduction (p. 2).
Layout: 30 long lines.
Script: Written in a maghribi in reddish ink; pointed.
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).
Origin: Composed and published in 1793, in Palermo, Italy.
Shelfmark: MS Or 388 - FOLIO.
Sold by Probsthain & Co.; listed as number 1345 in Probsthain's Oriental Catalogue no. 20, part II (1910) (note laid in).

Keyword:

Leather bindings

History

Islamic bindings

Manuscripts

Early works

Flap bindings

forgeries (derivative objects)

Forgery of manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

1016-1194

Italy--Sicily

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/12993928

IIIF Manifest:

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

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library