Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 395 - FOLIO

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DS ID:

DS6619

Shelfmark:

MS Or 395 - FOLIO

Title:

Kharīdat al-ʻajāyib wa-farīdat al-gharāyib

Author:

Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457 / ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر، -1457

Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

16--?-17--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman Turkish with two pages in Arabic

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 185 foliated leaves : paper ; 275 x 175 (185 x 105) mm, bound to 275 x 185 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from Turkish introduction (f. 1v).
Layout: 19 long lines with poetry in two columns; some marginalia.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Some marginalia in nastaʻlīq; pointed.
Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold (1v-2r); rubrications in red; red dots punctuate text on some leaves.
Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 17th or 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 395 - FOLIO.
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).
According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition online, this is a plagiarism of Ibn Ḥamdān's Jāmiʻ al-funūn wa-salwat al-maḥzūn; see under Ibn al-Wardī (Nad̲j̲m al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥamdān b. S̲h̲abīb al-Ḥarrānī al-Ḥanbalī).
Stamp of a former owner repeatedly stamped (f. [0]r-1r, 15r, 45r, 57r, 80r).

Keyword:

marginalia (annotations)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Stamps

Manuscripts, Turkish

Geography, Arab

Natural history

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642704

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642704_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library