Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 593H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

Part XVIII of the Koran; containing Sūrahs XXIII, XXIV and XXV: 1-22.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 9 lines per page.
• Description: Top, middle, and bottom lines written in thuluth others in general script ; rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition, but extensively mended.
• Origin: Probably from the sixteenth century.
• Beginning: سورة [المؤمنين] ثانية وثماني عشراية * بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قد افلح المؤمنين
• Ending: لبعض فتنة اتصبرون وكان ربك بصيرا

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped design and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Cover is warped.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Thuluth.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1179B.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1345319414

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