Details

Subject(s)

• Chess [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1192H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

Diagrams showing 24 different plays in the game of chess; explanations for most of them are written in the margins in red and black.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: Two diagrams per page with marginal commentary on a slant.
• Description: In red and black ink ; MS in good condition.

Binding note

Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue paper.

Language note

Turkish;

Script

Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 167

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858691355

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