Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Egypt—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Nile River—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 184H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Summary note

A brief history of Egypt and a description of the Nile and of Egypt.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; title page and colophon decorated with a border of alternating black and red motifs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• On folio 13a is a sketch of the sources of the Nile. The book is dedicated to al-Amīr al-Khiḍr, the governor of Egypt in the time of the Sultan Muḥammad III, who reigned 1003-1012 [1595-1603].
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: ونسأل الله التوفيق لنا ولوالدينا ولمن علمنا ولمن حضرنا ولکافة المسلمين اجمعين انه مجيب قريب الدعوات امين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين امين وغفر الله تعالى لمن کتب هذه النسخة ولجميع المسلمين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله ...الحمد لله الذي فضل البلاد المصرية

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow and red marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 616.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292558541

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