Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3508Y

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DS ID:

DS28391

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3508Y

Title:

Kitāb Mubāriz al-aqrān fī takhmīs al-Muʻallaqāt / كتاب مبارز الاقران في تخميس المعلقات

Muʻallaqāt

Author:

Ibn Daftarkhān, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1193-1257 / ابن دفترخان، علي بن محمد

ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Daftarkhān WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1257 and 1323

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 71 leaves : paper ; 240 x 160 (180 x 112) mm. bound to 244 x 175 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink, with larger script for headings. Light cream glazed paper. The paper has been frame-ruled. Simply illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, green and blue. Leaves wanting between fol. 2 and 3. Collation notes (see fol. 6b). Foliation in pencil using Arabic numerals. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Lacuna after fol. 2. The first complete poem begins on fol. 6b (Qaṣīdat Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd al-Wāʼilī).
The date Rabīʻ al-Awwal 655 [1257] in the colophon (fol. 70a) seems to be the date of completion of the text. See Mach, R. Yahuda.
Reading statements on fol. 1a, 70b, 71a. Ownership statements on fol. 1b, 2a (dated Ṣafar 723 [1323]). Seal on fol. 2b. Waqf (see fol. 7b-8a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

Thirteenth century

Waqf

Books

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic poetry

Muʻallaqāt

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947948773506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22f74e9f-28f6-4a58-afde-278b7ec9be21/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University