Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 175H

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DS ID:

DS2350

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 175H

Title:

Tārīkh Ibn Kathīr / تاريخ ابن كثير

Bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah

Author:

Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar, approximately 1301-1373 / ابن كثير، اسماعيل بن عمر

Ibn Kathir WIKIDATA

Date:

1484?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 v. (221, 205) leaves : paper ; 255 x 170 (192-203 x 130-140) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from notes on vol. 2, fol. 2a.
Vol. 2 On fol. 15b begins the original text, with a basmalah. On fol. 1a, note quoting al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī on seven --- in Babylon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 221 + i, i + 205 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed: 4-46 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25-27 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; MS is worm-eaten and fragile. Vol. 1 missing some leaves, e.g. central bifolio of the fifth quire (between fol. 31 and 32), two bifol. in the sixth quire, etc.
Paper: Vol. 1: light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible ; The quires of vol. 1 are numbered using Arabic ordinals and numerals, starting with "Rābiʻ 4" on fol. 18a. Vol. 2: light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines, and pulp visible ; Fol. 2-15a are later replacements on glazed European paper (corners wanting on fol. 2-7; fol. 15 pasted on the recto of an original leaf).
Origin: Copy of vol. 1 completed in the beginning (mustahall) of Shawwāl 889 [Oct. 1484] (colophon, fol. 221b).
Seal on vol. 1, fol. 9a. Reading statement on vol. 2, fol. 1a (repeated on fol. 205b), signed Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāʼūd known as al-Mashmūshī, dated 29 Jumādá al-Ākhir sanah ---? on fol. 1a, and 27 Jumādá al-Ūlá sanah ---?, on fol. 205b. Reading statement on vol. 2, fol. 2a, signed Aḥmad ʻAbd Allāh al-Sharīf al-Idkāwī . Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Early works

Headbands

History

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic Empire

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950602713506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/72085476-be1a-402f-8567-f4abfaf0b83d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University