Descriptive Information

Title

اطباق الذهب

Transliterated Title

Aṭbāq al-dhahab.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1393Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8k71nh14f

Publisher

[13--?]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1300-1399

Format

Manuscript

Extent

68 leaves : paper ; 152 x 115 (126 x 85) mm. bound to 155 x 120 mm.

Provenance

Autograph dedication by Muḥammad Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī to Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī ; ownership statement by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hamadānī (fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 4312

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 292 (XVI/Nachahmungen. a)

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 512 (XVII/Nachahmungen. a)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from beginning of text (fol. 5b, l. 3).

13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for punctuation and re-inking of the headings. Dark cream paper with no lines visible. Interlinear annotations (mostly Persian translation of the text). Fol. 1-2 and 67-68: fly-leaves (European glazed paper with watermark). Fol. 67-68: blank, except inscription on fol. 68b. Fol. 3a seems to be a fly-leaf pasted on an original leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a piece of paper pasted on fol. 68b: Inscription with the mention of the title and inscription "Raqm 24" in Arabic script.

According to R. Mach, copied in the 8th cent. H.

Collation: Paper ; first quire difficult to determine. From fol. 9a: 1-7⁸ + 2 (fol. 65-66); quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "al-thānī", see fol. 9a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Incipit: الهمّ انّا نحمدك على ما اسبلت من جلابيب كرمك ... [4أ] ... وبعد فقد اشار اليّ ولي من اولياء الله مدة قلادة الرقاب

Explicit: \\والاخرى امة مريدة فاجعل للحدّة [...] لها قسمين وللامة قسماً فانّ لها فى كتاب

Binding Note

Stiffened red leather with similar blind tooling on the upper and lower covers: single fillet frame enclosed in an outer frame made of fillets and a running s-shape pattern. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar 1075-1144—Aṭwāq al-dhahab fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-khuṭab

Islamic sermons, Arabic—Early works to 1800

Shīʻah—Sermons—Early works to 1800

Islamic literature, Arabic—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Sermons

Physical Characteristics

File Count

140

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0e2718a3-91a9-4f58-b781-bbace7792b53/manifest

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