Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Collection of Persian letters].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 427L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpr76fg92c
Publisher
[1797]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1797
Format
Manuscript
Extent
134 leaves : paper ; 248 x 141 (190-204 x 85-90) mm bound to 247 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Stamp ([iv]a=(iii)a). 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. 427
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Leaves 1b-31b: Inshā-i Harkarn
leaves 32b-42a: Inshā-i Murād Ḥāṣil
leaves 42b-54a: Inshā-i Iʻyār-i dānish
-- leaves 55a-68a, 69a-91a, 107a-134b: [Inshā-i Barahman]
leaves 96a-106b: [Inshā-i Nūr Muḥammad].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 134 + v ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page ; fol. 1-39 frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; paper tinted pink ; MS in very good condition.
Origin: Dated 20 Uktūbar 1212 [20 October 1797] (leaf 31b); 30 Uktūbar 1212 [30 October 1797] (leaf 42a); Dīsanbir 1212 [1797 or 1798] (leaf 54a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وتمم بالخير اسشاء هركرن ...
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandora with pendants and cornerpieces. Red leather doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Persian letters—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
personal correspondence
Personal correspondence
Colored papers
Gold tooled bindings
Leather doublures
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
296

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ffc001b-c407-4e65-a34f-89b3aa88c6eb/manifest