Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 40W

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DS ID:

DS28389

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 40W

Title:

Javāhir-i asrār Allāh / جواهر اسرار الله

Urdu texts

Author:

Ḥusaynī al-Aḥmadī, Shāh ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm / حسىنى الاحمدى، شاه على محمد بن ابراهىم

Shāh ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ḥusaynī al-Aḥmadī WIKIDATA

Date:

1629

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Urdu

Urdu WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 138 leaves : paper ; 159 x 118 (110 x 73) mm bound to 163 x 125 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Title from colophon on leaf 145a.
Physical description: 9 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on cream glazed, laid, gold-sprinkled Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold. Headings in red; catchwords. Leaves 9-17 heavily damp stained and mended. Remainder of manuscript has occasional damp staining and some insect damage. Towards end of manuscript there is some disintegration of the paper; leaves...
Origin: 4 Muḥarram 1039 H [24 August 1629], by Amān Allāh Valī (leaf 145a).
Purchased by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh ... for five rupees on 5 Rajab 1160 H [13 July 1747] (leaf 145b). Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Keyword:

Poetry

Manuscripts, Urdu

Seventeenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9975677323506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b00383a3-e537-4ba0-93af-cc025683f00c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University