Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—History—640-1882—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Egypt—Kings and rulers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 183H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A chronological work, giving the names and dates of those who governed Egypt from the beginning of the Muslim conquest 19-20 [640-41] to the time of Khūrshīd Pāshā 1218-20 [1804-5] and the advent of Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā [1805-48]. There is also at the end a short essay on the nature and history of the currency used in Egypt during the same period.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering "VG"[?], three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, older section stained with dampness.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes. Between folios 10 and 11 one or more folios are wanting. Folios 11-38 inclusive are by a different and older hand. Evidently the work had originally ended with folio 38, with Ibrāhīm Pāshā al-Silaḥdār 1031 [1621/2]. Between folios 38 and 39 one or more folios are wanting.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: الماية نحاس والذهب قريب من النصف والنصف
• Incipit: بسم الله ... نحمدك يا من تفرد بالبقاء والدوام

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper stamped with red and green chevon design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 615.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1291216564

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