Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—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. 196L [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A fragment of the Qurʼan containing Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (I), Sūrat Yā-Sīn (XXXVI), and Sūrat al-Fatḥ (XLVIII), followed by several prayers and talismans.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Sūrah XLVIII: 28 (in part) to the end are added by a later hand and part is in margin. Inscription (fol. (i)a). Latin description of the manscript (fol. (ii)a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 79 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 5-7 lines per page ; fol. 2-31 frame-ruled in gold and black with gold-sprinkling inside the frame.
• Description: MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Opening spread framed in gold, red, blue and black (fol. 1b-2a). Headpieces of similar design at beginning of each subsequent sūrah.
• Origin: Probably from XVIth century.

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Marble paper pastedowns.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-24ab: [Sections from the Qurʼan]
• 2. fol. 24a-31b: [Prayers] Written in the same hand as the Qurʼan sections.
• 3. fol. 32a-79b: [Miscellany] Prayers and talismans.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1187.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Fātiḥah
• Qurʼan. Sūrat Yāsīn
• Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Fatḥ

OCLC

1458843769

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