Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1036H

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DS ID:

DS28313

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1036H

Title:

Kitāb Kashf al-ḥijāb wa-al-rān ʻan wajh asʼilat al-jānn / / كتاب كشف الحجاب والران عن وجه اسئلة الجان /

Text on spirits

Author:

Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 / شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن احمد، approximately 1493-1565 or 1566

Abd Al-Wahhab bin Ahmad Al-Misri Al-Sharani WIKIDATA

Date:

16--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 44 leaves : paper ; 204 x 146 (146 x 100) mm. bound to 205 x 148 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Fol. 43b has an almost completely obliterated inscription which is either an ownership statement or the name of the scribe and possibly the date of the copy.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 44 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small script in black ink.
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Early works

Spirits (Islam)

Jinn

Islamic philosophy

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952969963506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/41c08646-ec6f-4782-be16-a9ddada3228f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University