Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Saʻdīʹzādah, ʻAlī, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• سعدي‌زادة، علي، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 194L [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• "R 39" on upper flyleaf.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 317 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, black and red.
• Description: Watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Opening spread written on a gold cloud background within an elaborate wide border of gold, blue, green, pink, black and red (fol. 1b-2a). Verses separated by gold circles. Medallions of gold, red and blue in margins to mark divisions. Sūrah headings written in red or white ink on a gold background.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1180 by ʻAlī Afandī, known as Saʻdīʹzādah (fol. 317b).
• Colophon: تمت هذه المصحف شريف سنه ثمانين ومايه والف كتبه الفقير على افندى المعروف بسعدى زاده [من تلاميذ؟] مصطفى المعروف بكوتا؟مى الشيخ الجلو

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Blind-stamped triangular design and blind-tooled decorative edging on replacement flap. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1185.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1458835741

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