Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 191Lq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Cloth bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes. Insert.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 358 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and gold.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (lion in a circle topped by a crown with lettering "concordia res paruae crescunt"; roman-alphabet letters "VdL" ) ; MS in very good condition.
• Decoration: Opening, middle and closing spreads written within wide borders elaborately decorated with yellow, red and black (fol. 1b-2a, 174b-174a, and 357b-358a).). Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ written in tapered colophon shape and framed below with simlar elaborate decoration (fol. 357a). Verses separated by yellow or red circles.
• Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap fore-edge. Red floral cloth pastedowns and flyleaf. Multi-colored endbands.
• Origin: Probably from the early part of the XIXth century.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1182.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Indonesia

OCLC

1458835813

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