Details

Subject(s)

• Daffodils—Pictorial works—Specimens [Browse]
• Calligraphy, Arabic [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Lacquered bindings [Browse]

Summary note

The ms. consists of pieces of paper of two distinct origin inserted in larger pages of laid paper. A leaf with text written in thuluth is followed by an earlier leaf with the same text written in a script leaning towards New Style 1.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 5 lines per page. The inlaid portion is framed in red, gold, and blue; fol. 1 and 12 are plain paper with no inlaid portion. A leaf with text written in thuluth on cream paper is followed by an earlier leaf (dark cream paper, large laid lines) with the same text written in a script leaning towards New Style 1 (see in particular lām-alif and final ṭāʾ), with diacritics consisting of gold circles outlined in black; in these latter leaves, verses marks consist of a circle with a letter surrounded by thin petals in gold outlined in black; juzʾ marks consist of a large medallion filled with decoration in gold and white and outlined in blue with small dots and radiating flecks in black (see fol. 9b) ; vocalization added in red by a later hand.
• Origin: According to P. Hitti, the thuluth should be dated to the 12th/18th cent. The earlier leaves appear to date to the 6th/12th cent. The final form of the ms. appear to date to the 19th or 20th cent.
• Beginning: يحيى ويميت وهو على كل شىء قدير هو الاول والاخر
• End: الذين كفروا ما وبكم النار

Binding note

Lacquered binding. The outer side has a central panel with flowers and leaves and a border consisting of a simply executed -scroll. Daffodil and wallflowers on a red ground on the doublure. Text-block detached from binding.

Provenance

Rectangular seal and ex-libris of Robert Garrett pasted in the centre of fol. 14b.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1179-D

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

244796785

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