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ارجوزة الاثاري في صناعة الكتابة / للشيخ شعبان الاثري القرشي.
Urjūzat al-Āthārī fī ṣināʻat al-kitābah / lil-Shaykh Shaʻbān al-Atharī al-Qurashī.
1600-1800
An iambic poem (urjūzah) on the art of writing, the kind of ink to be used, the pen, the way of writing various letters, rules of grammar and composition.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 60H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An iambic poem (urjūzah) on the art of writing, the kind of ink to be used, the pen, the way of writing various letters, rules of grammar and composition.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ارجوزة الاثاري في صناعة الكتابة / للشيخ شعبان الاثري القرشي.
- Transliterated Title
- Urjūzat al-Āthārī fī ṣināʻat al-kitābah / lil-Shaykh Shaʻbān al-Atharī al-Qurashī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 60H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0p096g12m
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1800
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 26 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 207 x 155 (150 x 70) mm bound to 205 x 161 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Ghānim al-ʻAqqād with his seal impressions; two obscured signatures (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 96.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. A recipe for ink and a few stray inscriptions (fol. 1a). Diagrams utilizing circles to demonstrate how to write the letters of the alphabet (fol. 10b-12a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 20-22 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition except for a few folios which are worm-eaten.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد والشکر لباري الامم * وخالق اللوح ومدري القلم ...
- Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه بخير امين
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 59
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ea3bc6d0-22a9-4a73-ba77-c00a420d89a5/manifest