Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1260Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS28230

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1260Y

Title:

Risālah fī al-māhīyāt min al-ḥikmah / رسالة في الماهيات من الحكمة

Philosophical text

Metaphysical text

Author:

Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534 / ابن كمال باشا

Ibn Kemal WIKIDATA

Date:

between 16--? and 17--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 18, i leaves: paper ; 205 x 125 (130 x 60) mm. bound to 205 x 130 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue, red, black and white, with a basmalah on fol. 2b. The text is framed within a gilt border with black fillets. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Verses of poetry in Arabic on fol. 1b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. 1 is a fly-leaf with inscriptions).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-Ḥikmah 21". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 855".
Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Islamic philosophy

Metaphysics

Sixteenth century

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949170993506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University