Item Summary

Diagrams showing 24 different plays in the game of chess; explanations for most of them are written in the margins in red and black.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Treatise on chess].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1192H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdz011285p
Date Created
1850-1899
Extent
14 leaves : paper, diagrams ; 207 x 153 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., 167
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: Two diagrams per page with marginal commentary on a slant.
Description: In red and black ink ; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d21770f-836d-43f6-ad15-9fee50bac15b/manifest