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كتاب تحفة الجليل في اخبار مصر والنيل / تأليف محمد الغزالي.
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-jalīl fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Nīl / taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
1595-1900
A brief history of Egypt and a description of the Nile and of Egypt.
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- Publisher
- [not before 1595]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 184H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A brief history of Egypt and a description of the Nile and of Egypt.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب تحفة الجليل في اخبار مصر والنيل / تأليف محمد الغزالي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Tuḥfat al-jalīl fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Nīl / taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 184H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9w032c84q
- Publisher
- [not before 1595]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1595-1900
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 21 leaves : paper, illustration ; 217 x 158 (150 x 75) mm. bound to 222 x 161 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 616.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; title page and colophon decorated with a border of alternating black and red motifs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Ms. codex.
- On folio 13a is a sketch of the sources of the Nile. The book is dedicated to al-Amīr al-Khiḍr, the governor of Egypt in the time of the Sultan Muḥammad III, who reigned 1003-1012 [1595-1603].
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: ونسأل الله التوفيق لنا ولوالدينا ولمن علمنا ولمن حضرنا ولکافة المسلمين اجمعين انه مجيب قريب الدعوات امين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين امين وغفر الله تعالى لمن کتب هذه النسخة ولجميع المسلمين امين
- Incipit: بسم الله ...الحمد لله الذي فضل البلاد المصرية
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow and red marbled paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 52
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b2e677be-b7db-4f75-8db2-f332de41500a/manifest