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Descriptive Information

Title
تعريفات / جمع مصلح الدين مصطفى بن محي الدين محمد بن اسماعيل الثيروي المشهور بابن القصاع
Transliterated Title
Taʻrīfāt / jamʻ Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Thīrawī al-mashhūr bi-Ibn al-Qaṣṣāʻ
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 927Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/h989r5806
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1614
Extent
110 leaves : paper ; 178 x 110 (124 x 70) mm bound to 179 x 118 mm.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signatures and seal impressions (fol. 1a).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 3771.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 280 (no. 2); S II, 305.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal annotations including a diagram (fol. 80a). Inserts. Label on pastedowns: "ELS No. 927". Other dealer's labels and inserts on pastedowns and upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 110 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper lightly tinted red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in very good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in red, gold and light blue (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 1b-2a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو يهدي الي صراط مستقيم الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة علي خير خلقه محمد وآله وبعد فهذه تعريفات جمعتها ة واصطلاحات اخذتها من كتب القوم ورتبتها علي حروف الهجاء ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ عن الكتاب المسمى بالتعريفات للسيد الجرحانى سقى الله تراه وجعل الحنة متواه عن يد العبد المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة ربه بلغ المقابه على هذا ال...
Binding Note
Later binding of red leather spine and brown leather covers. Blind-stamped mandorla with gold outline and gold-painted pendants and gold-tooled border on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Orange paper upper pastedown and flyleaf, marbled paper lower pastedown. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
123

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0bef6b20-b41d-48f1-bbe3-c77974c0b14d/manifest