Details

Subject(s)

• Kurds—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 428L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• magic squares [Browse]

Summary note

A history of the Kurds, preceded and followed by Persian verses on leaves )i)b4b-1a, 59b-62b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and magic square on folio 1a. Stamp on folio [i]a at back with Dutch inscription.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + iv + 62 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-16 lines per page ; many folios after 26 written on a slant.
• Description: MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1104 (fol. 59a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بعد ازالشاى حمد ...

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled edging. Most of the gold-stamping is missing.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 428

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858863932

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