Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 142H

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DS ID:

DS2524

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 142H

Title:

Sukkardān al-sulṭān / سكردان السلطان

Sukkardān al-sulṭān

Author:

Ibn Abī Ḥajalah, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1325-1374 or 1375 / ابن ابي حجلة، احمد بن يحيى، 1325-1374 or 1375

Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Ibn-Abī-Ḥaǧala WIKIDATA

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 117 leaves : paper ; 182 x 130 (155 x 110) mm. bound to 180 x 132 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. 117 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in fair condition, some pages mended. Title page lacking. The first page is defective.
Layout: 22 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon is an Urjūzah min al-Ḥaḍar containing a prophecy about a king who will come from near Damascus and will in 903 [1497] seize Cairo and establish his rule over Syria and Egypt.
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 2b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Early works

History

1250-1517

Mamelukes

Seven (The number)

Egypt

Symbolism of numbers

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568743506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ca0bc5e3-6830-4509-a4bf-f1f529f0ca07/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University