Item Summary

Volume 1 of a history of the Mongol Empire in Persia.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا کتاب وصاف.
Transliterated Title
Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Vaṣṣāf.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 461Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5t34sz08t
Publisher
25 Jumādá al-Awwal 1271 [February 13, 1855]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1855
Format
Manuscript
Extent
119 leaves : paper ; 324 x 203 (215 x 115) mm bound to 327 x 203 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 461
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from header (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Later inscription at head of text: "K&E, N. 366, Histoir de la Perse" [in rom.]. Inscriptions (upper pastedown and fol. 1a). Insert.
Collation: Wove or machine-made paper ; fol. 119 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, ink smudged into illegibility in some places.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 25 Jumādá al-Awwal 1271 by Mīrzā Ḥusayn son of ? Aḥmad (fol. 119a).
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging.

Discovery Information

Subject
Mongols—Iran
Iran—History—640-1500
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
244

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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