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كتاب لمحة المختطف في صناعة الخط الصل / تأليف حسين بن ياسين بن محمد.
Kitāb Lamḥat al-mukhtaṭif fī ṣināʻat al-khaṭṭ al-ṣalif / taʼlīf Ḥusayn ibn Yāsīn ibn Muḥammad.
1677
A treatise on calligraphy giving a description of the various letters and a recipe for ink.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 534H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on calligraphy giving a description of the various letters and a recipe for ink.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب لمحة المختطف في صناعة الخط الصل / تأليف حسين بن ياسين بن محمد.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Lamḥat al-mukhtaṭif fī ṣināʻat al-khaṭṭ al-ṣalif / taʼlīf Ḥusayn ibn Yāsīn ibn Muḥammad.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 534H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck930c7567
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1677
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 9 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (175 x 107) mm. bound to 218 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 750.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- One marginal note on folio 4.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 9 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in very good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Awwal 1088 in Bayt al-Faqīh (fol. 9a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي علم بالقلم علم الانسان ما لم بعلم ... وبعد فقد سالني جماعة من طالبي علم الكتابة ان اكتب لهم مقدمة في اصول الخط ...
- Colophon: تمت الارجوزة بعون الله وکرمه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله رب العالمين بتاريخ شهر جماد[ى] الاول سنة ثمان وثمانين والف بمدينة ببيت الفقيه الکامل سيدي احمد بن موسى ابن عجيل اعاد الله علينا وعلى المسلمين من برکاته وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and brown spotted paper. Light brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 32
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15ac84a1-56d3-4daa-a512-0ed2b1184e26/manifest