Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Icaze appointing Mehmet Nasip Dede head of the Mevlevi order] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1177H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpg15bs645
Date Created
1855-1856
Extent
84 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 225 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 182.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. leaves 4-16: [Icaze appointing Mehmet Nasip Dede head of the Mevlevi order] / Mehmet Sait bin Mehmet.
2. leaves 19-29: [Astrological calendar with tables and charts].
3. leaves 40-46: [Extract on dietetics from Majmaʻ al-javāmiʻ]. In Persian.
4. leaves 47-52: Qawāfī al-thalāth / Abu ʻAbd Allāh al-Harawī al-Anṣārī. Arabic treatise on rhymes.
5. leaves 53-56: [Treatise on ethics].
6. leaves 57-63: [Extract from al-Mafākhir al-ʻalīyah fī al-maʼāthir al-Shādhilīyah].
7. leaves 64-68: [Brief theological dictionary with three entries].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Includes diagrams and tables. Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 80 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-21 lines per page in one or two columns ; partially frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; most of the paper tinted light yellow with a few tinted blue or untinted ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with a lion; eagle) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Icaze] Copied 1272 H [1855 or 1856] by Sayyid Muḥammad Qudrat Allāh al-Mawlawī.
Binding Note
Limp binding in light brown leather and dark blue paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
184

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e4400a44-aa65-47d3-b302-609d6bd27cb6/manifest