Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 680q

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DS ID:

DS28087

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 680q

Title:

Kitāb al-Asfār / كتاب الاسفار

Philosophical text

Author:

Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641 / صدر الدين شيرازي، محمد بن ابراهيم

Mulla Sadra WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

1807

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 216 leaves : paper ; 277 x 180 (200 x 118) mm. bound to 280 x 185 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 215a).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. The text is framed within a border in gold and black with an outer frame consisting of a single red line to define the margin. The titles of the sections of the text are repeated in black ink on the margin. Inscriptions on pastedown of upper cover and on fol. 1a-2a and 215b, including verses of poetry, and quotations...
Decorations: The first two pages of the text (fol. 2b-3a) have a margin filled with an arabesque with flowers, executed in gold, red, and black. The text is written in clouds in gold outlined in black. Elaborate headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 3b.
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismaʻīl ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Shīrāzī, and completed on Sunday 2 Rajab 1222 [Sept. 1807] for Mīrzā Aḥmad(?) (fol. 215a).

Keyword:

Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)

Iran

Nineteenth century

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

headpieces (layout features)

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic philosophy

History

Seventeenth century

Sources

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954641303506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/93c98729-03f3-430a-b7a7-4e03fd73ae1e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University