Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 3 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the twelve Imams, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Description based on Martinovitch catalog.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwān; margins ruled in gold, red, green, and blue.
• Origin: Undated.

Binding note

Blue leather, richly ornamented and embossed.

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. 466

OCLC

858914252

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