Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 534H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on calligraphy giving a description of the various letters and a recipe for ink.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• One marginal note on folio 4.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 9 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in very good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Awwal 1088 in Bayt al-Faqīh (fol. 9a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي علم بالقلم علم الانسان ما لم بعلم ... وبعد فقد سالني جماعة من طالبي علم الكتابة ان اكتب لهم مقدمة في اصول الخط ...
• Colophon: تمت الارجوزة بعون الله وکرمه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله رب العالمين بتاريخ شهر جماد[ى] الاول سنة ثمان وثمانين والف بمدينة ببيت الفقيه الکامل سيدي احمد بن موسى ابن عجيل اعاد الله علينا وعلى المسلمين من برکاته وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and brown spotted paper. Light brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 750.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424376

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