Item Summary

A history of Egypt from remote times until the time of Sulaymān the Magnificent, who reigned 926-64 [1520-1566].

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب علم التاريخ على التمام والكمال
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb ʻllm al-tārīkh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 180H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck3569f11s
Publisher
[not before 1789]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1789-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 75 leaves : paper ; 213 x 156 (165 x 100) mm. bound to 211 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 626.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On a folio after the colophon are lists of the Ottoman sultans from ʻUthmān Khān Ghāzī 699 [1299] to Salīm Khān [III] 1203 [1789] and of the governors of Egypt from Khayr Bey Pāshā 922 [1516] to Sulaymān Pāshā 943 [1536/7] with their reigns. First and last folios have some writing and calculations.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 75 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield, roman-alphabet letters "V O" or "O A", sun) ; MS in fair condition, upper cover detached from binding.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية في ازليته
Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Egypt—History—Early works to 1800
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
163

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0da77cf6-7215-4ece-b880-b1a6680a4501/manifest