Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Arabic poetry [Browse]
• Persian poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Trivia and miscellanea [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Commonplace books—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

between 1850 and 1899].

Summary note

Commonplace book containing Arabic and Persian poetry and Arabic prose selections from a variety of Islamic texts, including history and philosophy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Texts written in different directions. Partially paginated in Arabic script; Western foliation omits first three folios. In excellent condition.

Binding note

Contemporary full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

OCLC

813960086

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