Details

Subject(s)

• Mecca (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medina (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Nabi's account of his pilgrimage to Mekka and Medina, composed in 1682.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• 23 lines per page. Written in a casual small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thin dark cream paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres. Some water damage to paper, and some repairs towards the end of text.
• Incipit: اي بيت حرامى صف غفرانه مقام
• Explicit: ديدم تمامنه نابى بو نسخنك تاريخ بو تحفهء حرمينم قبول ايده مولى

Binding note

Half leather binding with blue marbled paper over pasteboard and red leather on spine and corners of covers.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

123422741

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