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هذا كتاب العظمة / لابي بكر بن عبد الله بن محمد عبيد بن شعبان بن ابي الدنيا.
Hādhā Kitāb al-ʻAẓamah / li-Abi Bakr ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻUbayd ibn Shaʻbān ibn Abī al-Dunyā.
1657
A treatise on the wonders of creation in heaven, on earth, in the sea and in paradise and hell.
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- Author
- Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 823-894
- ابن ابي الدنيا، عبد الله بن محمد، 823-894
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 586H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the wonders of creation in heaven, on earth, in the sea and in paradise and hell.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب العظمة / لابي بكر بن عبد الله بن محمد عبيد بن شعبان بن ابي الدنيا.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb al-ʻAẓamah / li-Abi Bakr ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻUbayd ibn Shaʻbān ibn Abī al-Dunyā.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 586H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctd96kd167
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1657
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (1), 80 leaves : paper ; 201 x 150 (153 x 100) mm. bound to 201 x 158 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures Aḥmad dated 1255; Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ? dated 1255; and an obscured signature (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 764.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. In the colophon it is stated that this is what was found in the book of the Prophet Daniel. Text has numerous edits, deletions and substitutions. Inscriptions on upper pastedown, flyleaves and title page. Pastedowns are detached revealing writing within the binding.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 80 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page.
- Description: Watermarks (three crescents with countermark; anchor?) ; MS in fair-to-poor condition, worm-eaten, stained and mended. Many folios are loose. Rare.
- Origin: According to colophon copied 15 Rabīʻah al-Awwal 1068 (fol. 80a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله العظيم الوكيل الصمد الكريم الذي خلق ما في السموات والارض وما تحت الثري وهو بلك شي عليم ... وبعد فهذا اكنب فيه اعظمة الله عز وجل وصفة ما خلق الله تعال في السموات والارض وما تحت الثري ومن الملايكة ...
- Colophon: وهذا کتاب دانيال النبي عليه السلام مما او حاه الله تعالى اليه واعد به وسماه کتاب العظمة وهو على التمام والکمال في خامس عشر ربيعي الاول سنة 1068 تم بالخير
- Binding Note
- Later? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner decorations on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Modern spine repair.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 173
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3164ff26-b63c-412b-8c63-ae21473fbd1c/manifest