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هذا الكتاب في صناعة الاحجار وخواصها.
Hādhā al-Kitāb fī ṣināʻat al-aḥjār wa-khawāṣṣihā.
1800-1899
A treatise treating of fifty-four different precious stones. The title page says it is arranged by 60 precious stones.
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- Publisher
- [19th century]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 585H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise treating of fifty-four different precious stones. The title page says it is arranged by 60 precious stones.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا الكتاب في صناعة الاحجار وخواصها.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā al-Kitāb fī ṣināʻat al-aḥjār wa-khawāṣṣihā.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 585H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2z10x185p
- Publisher
- [19th century]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 41 leaves : paper ; 184 x 112 (132 x 65) mm bound to 183 x 114 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1074.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Folios 40a-41a contain notes about stones, glass, crystal, etc. in Arabic and Persian.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 41 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Embossed "imitation" watermark bearing the text "athar jadīd ʻahd humāyūn" ; rubricated ; verse separators and other use of red ; MS in excellent condition.
- Origin: MS from late XlXth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله العزيز الغفار * لواحد القهار ... اما بعد فهذه كتاب ضفته ووضعته في صنايع الاحجار يحتاجه كل ذى لب زوى الاقتدار ليعرف ما فيها من النفع وما فيها من الاسرار ...
- Colophon: ختمت. وبه ثقتي وهو حسبي ونعم الوکيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. م.م.م
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and green, red and yellow marbled paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 90
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/603d6bb6-47a2-4fbd-ae74-a66e84b48553/manifest