Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—History—French occupation, 1798-1801 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 187H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A chronicle of Cairo during the French occupation from 1213-1216 [1798-1801] and during the decline of their power in Egypt.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 219 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-22 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المبارکة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد کاتبها الفقير الى مولاه القوي عبد الکريم احمد الملوي امام زاوية القطب الکبير سيدي احمد الدردير ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما امين تم
• Incipit: بسم الله ... حمدا لمن جعل کلمة الذين کفروا السفلى

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Stamped red mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Flap missing. Quires do not appear to have ever been sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1058.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 153.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 613.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 571.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292559154

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