Item Summary

A book of geography, an abridgment of Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʼib al-asfār by Ibn Baṭṭūṭah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب مختصر محمد بن فتح الله بن محمود البيلوني من رحلة ابي عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن ابراهيم بن بطوطة.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Muḥammad ibn Fatḥ Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Baylūnī min Riḥlat Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Baṭṭūṭah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 270H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqf85nn52n
Publisher
4 Shaʻbān 1245 [January 29, 1830?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1830
Format
Manuscript
Extent
114 leaves : paper ; 216 x 159 (155 x 90) mm. bound to 214 x 167 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 256/7.
Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1117-9.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 761.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1541.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
A few marginal notes and glosses. Some calculations on the lower pastedown. Title on lower edge of text block illegible.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 114 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, cursive roman-alphabet letters "J.P.") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 4 Shaʻbān 1245 by Aḥmad Ḥijāzī al-Sandayūnī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 114b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من نسخها صبيحة يوم الخميس المبارك اربعة ايام خلت من شهر شعبان المعظم سنة الف ومايتين [و خمسة واربعين من الهجرة النبوية على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى الملك العلي احمد حجازي السنديوني الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولا خوانه في الله تعالى ولمن طالع فيها ودعا له بالمغفرة والمسليمن اجمعين يا رب العالمين والحمد لله على کل حال والصلاة والسلام على سيد ولد عدنان صلى الله عليه وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Incipit: بسم الله ... وبعد فيقول فقير عفو ربه الغني محمد
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Blind-stamped design and blind-tooled edging on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Africa—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Asia—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
243

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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