Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 2 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of Muḥammad and the first four Caliphs; missing the first folio and one or more folios at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On spine: "Jild" in Arabic script; beneath this word a square of the spine has been cut away.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes (especially on fol. 274-5). Some staining; marginal paper repairs to leaves at beginning of ms. Missing first folio and one or more folios at the end. Margins of fol. 274-5 have been folded in and bound that way. In good condition.

Binding note

European cloth binding.

Language note

Persian.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 89

OCLC

809249235

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