Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Middle East—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 160H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a collection of discourses in description of a journey by the author and what he saw and heard.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 107 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; title also written on top edge ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19-23 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 10 Shawwāl 1125 by the author (fol. 107b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وقد وقع من هذه الرحلة کتابة وتصحيحا بحسب الطاقة في يوم الاثنين المبارك عاشر شوال سنة الف وماية وخمس وعشرين على يد کاتبها غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولمن دعا له بغفر الذنب وستر العيب ولجميع المسلمين بمنه وکرمه امين امين. تم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله وحده والصلاة على من لا نبي بعده

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs. Blind-tooled decorative edging. Blind-stamped motifs and blind-tooled edging on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

On the title page is the obliterated autograph of an owner dated 1280 [1863/4]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 393.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2294.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 219.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1543.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

رحلة كبيرة

Title on bottom edge

• Riḥlah kabīrah

OCLC

1289789139

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