Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 979H

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DS ID:

DS2379

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 979H

Title:

Kitāb Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid lil-Nasafī / / كتاب شرح العقائد للنسفي /

Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah

Author:

Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389? / تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر، 1322-1389?

Taftazani WIKIDATA

Date:

1452

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 74 leaves: paper ; 180 x 130 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Inscription "486" in Western numerals in black ink on the pastedown of the upper cover [corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs appartenant à la maison E. J. Brill à Leide, no. 979].
Layout: 18 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large script, with Maghribī elements, see the dāl, the fāʼ, and the qāf. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Several inscriptions, including a crossed out ownership statement on fol. 1a.
Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 856 [April 21, 1452] by Aḥmad al-Maghribī, known as al-Farwī (colophon, fol. 74a).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Islamic bookbinding

Gold tooled bindings

Islam--Doctrines

Early works

ʻAqāʼid (Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad)

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951749763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d46f5db-b0bc-4cbc-b031-e3137ed88646/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University