Princeton University, Islamic manuscripts Garrett no. 989H

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DS ID:

DS2394

Shelfmark:

Islamic manuscripts Garrett no. 989H

Title:

Maṭāliʻ al-anẓār fī sharḥ Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār. Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār / مطالع الانظار في شرح طوالع الانوار. طوالع الانوار من مطالع الانظار

Maṭāliʻ al-anẓār fī sharḥ Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār. Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār

Author:

Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349 / اصفهاني، محمود بن عبد الرحمن، 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349

Mahmud ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Isfahani WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Aqyāzatī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, active 15th century / اقيازتي، محمد بن عيسى، active 15th century

Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá Aqyāzatī WIKIDATA

Place:

Istanbul?

Date:

1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 250 leaves: paper ; 184 x 134 (113 x 75 and 130 x 80) mm. bound to 184 x 135 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, from preamble of first text (fol. 3a, l. 17-18) and of second text (fol. 214a, l. 5-6).
Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Title on tail of text block: "Iṣfahānī". Inscription in black ink in Western numerals on fol. 1a: "511" (corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs (188-), no. 989).
Layout: 19 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue.
Description: Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some paper dyed yellow. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals on the first text (starts with "1" on third fol.).
Origin: Copy of Text 1 completed in Ṣafar 875 [1470] by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī in Madrasat Zayrak [Zeyrek madrasa, Istanbul?](colophon, fol. 212a). Copy of Text 2 completed on a Monday at the beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 874 [June 1470] by the same scribe, whose name appears here as Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá Ḥājjī ibn ʻAlá al-Dīn al-Aqyāzatī(?) (colophon, fol. 250a).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Colored papers

Gold tooled bindings

Islamic bookbinding

Islam--Doctrines

Early works

Thirteenth century

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952979403506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f5cf14a-0786-4998-9d22-a71ec684ac90/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University