Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Collection of moral precepts].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 456L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbr86bh15d
Language
Persian
Format
Manuscript
Extent
203 leaves : paper ; 273 x 178 (207 x 110) mm bound to 275 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature and 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. 456
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Label on upper cover: "21 MX 456".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 203 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue, black and red with outer frame of blue.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, red ink faded.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue, white and pink. Text on opening page in clouds on gold background (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold, blue, black and red (fol. 1b-2a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اخرج ابن ابي شيبه والبخاري وابن مردويه عن زيدبن وهب فى قوله فقاتلوا ائمة الكفر ...
Colophon: في فصل الاول من المقصد الثالث في كتاب المواهب اللدنيه
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped central motif with pendants and cornerpieces and gold-tooled edging. Gold-tooling on spine. Red leather doublures. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic ethics
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Gold tooled bindings
Leather doublures
Headbands
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Stamps
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
420

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8032a862-d067-4eca-80ff-282b3dd65880/manifest