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Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Afghanistan—Herat—16th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Afghanistan—Herat—16th century [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in calligraphic naskh in black and gold on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; vocalized. Text frames completely or partially detached; numerous paper repairs. Some damp staining and mild insect damage. In delicate condition due to detached frames.
• Decoration: Well-executed illuminations. Illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color at the beginning of each sūrah, with the largest being the first headpiece on fol. 1b. Text layout: one line in large gold script, three lines in small black script flanked on either side by illuminations; pattern is repeated then ends with a line in large gold script. Text framed in blue and gold; text area written in black is gold-sprinkled. Medallions in margins indicate every fifth and tenth āyahs. Gold disks outlined in blue mark end of each āyah.
• Origin: Last third of Ṣafar 976 H [August 1568], Herat, by Aḥmad ibn Niʻmat Allāh [fol. 21a].

Binding note

Loose in folder consisting of full black leather covers with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces; maroon leather doublures with cutout central mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces decorated with gold or black filligree; insect damage.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Owner's note by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Mahdī ... al-Shāmī [fol. 1a]. Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

OCLC

840401657

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