Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 181H [Browse]

Summary note

A popular description and history of Egypt from remote times to the rise of Islam.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + (1) + 34 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks? ; MS in fair condition, many folios mended at the spine edge.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Ms. codex.
• On title page and the folio before is a long note about Egypt. On the page after the colophon is a record of an earthquake that shook Egypt at four oʼclock on Saturday, Rajab 24, 1039 [Saturday, March 9, 1630].
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 3 Dhī al-Ḥijjah 1030 (fol. 34a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم. وکان الفراغ من کتابته ضحوة نهار الاثنين ثالث ذي الحجة الحرام من شهور سنة ثلاثين والف غفرالله لکاتبه ولمن نظر فيه عيب وصحة ولمن قرا فيه ودعا لهم بالمغفرة. آمين. والحمد لله وحده والله اعلم بالصواب. تم
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الاول الاخر والباطن والظاهر

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown and red spotted paper. Front flyleaf is blue.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 614.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1291216371

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