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هذا صفوة الزمان فيمن تولى على مصر من امير وسلطان / مصطفى الصفوي الشافعي.
Hādhā Ṣafwat al-zamān fīman tawallá ʻalá Miṣr min amīr wa-sulṭān / Muṣṭafá al-Ṣafawī al-Shāfiʻī.
1814-1900
A chronological work, giving the names and dates of those who governed Egypt from the beginning of the Muslim conquest 19-20 [640-41] to the time of Khūrshīd Pāshā 1218-20 [1804-5] and the advent of Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā [1805-48]. There is also at the end a short essay on the nature and history of the currency used in Egypt during the same period.
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- Publisher
- [not before 1814]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 183H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A chronological work, giving the names and dates of those who governed Egypt from the beginning of the Muslim conquest 19-20 [640-41] to the time of Khūrshīd Pāshā 1218-20 [1804-5] and the advent of Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā [1805-48]. There is also at the end a short essay on the nature and history of the currency used in Egypt during the same period.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا صفوة الزمان فيمن تولى على مصر من امير وسلطان / مصطفى الصفوي الشافعي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Ṣafwat al-zamān fīman tawallá ʻalá Miṣr min amīr wa-sulṭān / Muṣṭafá al-Ṣafawī al-Shāfiʻī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 183H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfn107774t
- Publisher
- [not before 1814]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1814-1900
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 56, (1) leaves : paper ; 217 x 160 (170 x 115) mm. bound to 215 x 157 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 615.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering "VG"[?], three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, older section stained with dampness.
- Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
- Marginal notes. Between folios 10 and 11 one or more folios are wanting. Folios 11-38 inclusive are by a different and older hand. Evidently the work had originally ended with folio 38, with Ibrāhīm Pāshā al-Silaḥdār 1031 [1621/2]. Between folios 38 and 39 one or more folios are wanting.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Ending: الماية نحاس والذهب قريب من النصف والنصف
- Incipit: بسم الله ... نحمدك يا من تفرد بالبقاء والدوام
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper stamped with red and green chevon design.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 122
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a1935260-6c87-4ab4-b7ea-5170716725f7/manifest