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Vol. I of a work on the description and history of al-Rawḍah, an island in the Nile now a part of Cairo, together with a description of the Nile.
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- [not after 1576]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 179H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Vol. I of a work on the description and history of al-Rawḍah, an island in the Nile now a part of Cairo, together with a description of the Nile.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب كوكب الروضة / السيوطي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Kawkab al-Rawḍah / al-Suyūṭī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 179H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfb494k21p
- Publisher
- [not after 1576]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1470-1576
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (1), 132 leaves : paper ; 260 x 180 (210 x 130) mm.
- Provenance
- The title page carries a large number of ownership signatures, some partially erased or overlapping. They include: H[?] al-Sulṭān dated 984, ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Maʻarrī, one dated 1030, another dated 1095. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6111.
- Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 953.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2366-73.
- Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 416.
- Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 913.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 601.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1530/1.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 132 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition but some folios are worm-eaten.
- Layout: 27 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Evidently the last folio is by a later hand. On the folio preceding the title page is a poem by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Tāwikhī(?) and some other additions. On the page after the colophon and on the folio following occur two verses of poetry in praise of the book, a statement by the author that he composed this work 875 [1470], and several poems called ʻʻpoems of joyʼʼ.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: هذا اخر ما اردت ايراده في هذا الجزؤ الاول من هذا الکتاب
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... سبحان الله فاتق الانهار
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 270
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5098ebad-4cd0-43a8-a225-c701329be958/manifest