Item Summary

Treatise on medicine and magic by an unknown author.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب تحفت الملوک.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Tuḥfat al-mulūk.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc70795n21m
Publisher
[1]125 [1713 or 1714]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1713
Format
Manuscript
Extent
119 leaves : paper ; 176 x 109 (148 x 76) mm bound to 176 x 113 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature and seal impression dated Shaʻbān 1245 (fol. 119b), stamp repeated on fol. 76b. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 433
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Label on upper cover: "41 MX". Marginal doodle of a face (fol. 67a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 119 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16-17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in fair condition; stained, ink smeared affecting legibility in places.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed [1]125 (fol. 119b).
Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب ... سنه 125 م م م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in light brown leather. Blind-tooled frame and decorative edging. Multi-colored endbands. Blue paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Persian—Early works to 1800
Islamic magic—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
250

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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