Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 120

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DS ID:

DS6534

Shelfmark:

MS Or 120

Title:

Nuskhat al-sijill alladhī wujida muʻallaqan ʻalá al-mashāhid fī ghaybat Mawlānā al-Imām al-Ḥākim ...

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 122 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 205 x 150 (155 x 105) mm, bound to 205 x 150 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from heading of first report (f. 1v).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 14-15 long lines; border-ruled; one poem is set in two columns.
Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, fully vocalized. Headers in thuluth.
Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in red. Rubrications in red and green. Headers in red or yellow ink often on cloudbands with yellow, green, and black fill; some headers have more elaborate illumination in yellow and red (f. 18r, for example). Red roundels punctuate the text.
Shelfmark: MS Or 120.
Origin: Copy is undated, though perhaps copied in the 16th century. There is a note written across the spine lining with the date 864 A.H. (1460), though that date may be unrelated to this copy.

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

compilation manuscripts

pastedowns (features)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

declarations

Druzes

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islam--Doctrines

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892939

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892939_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library