Details

Subject(s)

• Classification of sciences—Dictionaries—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. 494H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An encyclopedia of sciences discussing the subject matter of each science, its aims and usefulness and enumerating some of the books on each science.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Marginal summaries. Colophon has a note that the MS contains 162 entries.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23-28 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare and valuable.
• Origin: According to colophon copied in the beginning of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 998 (fol. 35b).
• Incipit: مبادئ مدايحك الله ذکر اسمك العالي ومبادي محامدك ... اما بعد فهذه السعادة ...
• Colophon: والحمد لله على الاتمام في اوايل ربيع الاول المبارك سنه 998. العلوم في هذه الرسالة 162

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and brown marbled paper. Green paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1131.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 262.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 450¹.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 15¹

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421029

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