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Item Summary
Commentary on Manār al-anwār by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- منار ابن ملك.
- Transliterated Title
- Manār Ibn Malak.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2228Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b2773z291
- Publisher
- 962 [1554 or 1555]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1554
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 151 leaves : paper ; 207 x 135 (140 x 73) mm bound to 212 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: ʻAlī al-Riḍāyī (fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 898
- Brockelmann, GAL, II, 250 (commentary 4); S II, 263
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Marginal notes. Poetry and notes (fol. 150a-b). Label on upper pastedown: "ELS No. 2228". Insert from bookseller with "1074" in red pencil.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later paper) + 151 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (countermark roman-alphabet lettering "AB", "BP" with trefoil, unidentified mark) ; MS in very good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied in 962 (fol. 148b).
- Incipit: ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لله الحي الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا علم الفروع ... وبعد يقول عبد اللطيف بن فرشته اوصلهما الله الى برشده ان ارباب البطانة وأصحاب الفطانة من خلص احبابى ومختلس مآبى قالوا
- Colophon: الحمد لله على التمام ولرسوله افضل السلام وعلى اله الكرام در سنه / 962 م
- Binding Note
- Modern type III (without flap) binding in gold-sprinkled green and orange marbled paper. Cream paper pastedowns.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 155
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0737ae9b-a30a-40e6-9f14-7487364ba7dd/manifest















