Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 118H

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DS ID:

DS2507

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 118H

Title:

Collection of Arabic poems and miscellany

Arabic poetry

Date:

not after 1823?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 29, (55) leaves : paper ; 213 x 102 (190 x 90) mm. bound to 213 x 106 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 + (55) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: After the colophon are 54 blank folios ; watermarks (shield topped by a crown with letters underneath) ; MS in good condition.
Final 4 folios contain twelve verses of poetry by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Andulusī, written by al-Qāḍī Aḥmad Qāṭin, a fāʼidah explaining the origin of the enmity between the dog and the cat, and recording the birth of two children in 1239 and 1240.
Layout: 23-21 lines per page ; written on a slight slant ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Poetry

Headbands

Watermarks

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Arabic literature

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568413506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ec0c305-f218-4e90-abd3-baaa12f0df0f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University