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264 _0 ‡c 9 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1267 [February 10, 1851]
264 _0 ‡a Lipsiae, ‡c 1873.
264 _0 ‡a [Germany], ‡c [between 1500 and 1600]
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Supply all elements present. Use modern foliation rather than re-counting the leaves. Record the number of foliated leaves only. More detailed collocation following amremm guidelines is recorded in the collation note. Supply measurements according to amremm.
300 __ ‡a 71 leaves : ‡b paper ;‡c 210 x 180 (170 x 120) mm bound to 210 x 185 mm.
300 __ ‡a 2 volumes (182, 336 leaves) : ‡b paper ; ‡c 198-217 x 129-148 (170-175 x 85-100) mm bound to 197-217 x 138-157 mm.
300 __ ‡a 56, (2) leaves : ‡b parchment, illustrations ; ‡c 154 x 120 (130 x 50) mm.
500 Notes
Notes should follow the order prescribed in amremm for general consistency–see the order below. Additional notes made should be slotted in according to amremm. Do not include 524 note for a preferred citation form.
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Incipit and colophon should be provided. In cases of sammelband/majmuah volumes with many titles, drop the colophon and, if necessary, shorten or drop incipit also.
500 __ Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقى الحمد لله مجلي جياد الافهام بعقود مدح الشفيع ومحالي سلامة الاذواق ... تكريما وبعد فهذه قصيدة صادرة عن ذات قناع شاهدة بسلامة الطباع
500 __ Incipit: Initium evangeli Ihesu Christi filii dei sicut scriptum est
500 __ Colophon: وکان الفراغ من رقم هذا الديوان المبارك يوم الجمعة الانور ثامن ذي القعدة الحرام من سنة ستين ومائة والف على يد ناظمه الفقير عبد الله بن عبدالله المؤذن الادکاوي نزيل القاهرة
500 __ Colophon:
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520 __ Elegant copy of the first volume of the Dīvān of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār.
520 __ Treatise on alchemy with diagrams. Incomplete at end.
546 Language and script
Supply a language note when needed to indicate multiple languages, or to describe the script.
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500 __ Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page are four lines of poetry by Ramaḍān al-ʻAṭīfī. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 270b.
500 __ A few marginal notes. Inscriptions and geometric figures on title page and the folio preceding. Calligraphy practice on fol. 76b.
| Islamic: Avoid Hitti's use of the words scribbles and scribbling. Note the presence of Kabīkaj using the wording in the example. |
505 Formal contents
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| 505 | 0_ | 1. fols. 1r-45v: Euangelion kata mathaion. |
| 505 | 8_ | 2. fol. 46v: Matthaie paneuphēme eu/lalon stoma skepe phrouri phylatte / tous se timōntas ke pantoias thlimpseōs / autous eklytroumenous / tais pros ton kyrion ses / deēsesi amēn. |
| 505 | 8_ | 3. fol. 46v: Stichoi eis ton hagion markon. |
| 520 | __ | A collection of various religious works on proper behavior, religious duties, etc. including two short unidentified texts on fol. 44a-45b and fol. 55b-56b. |
| 505 | 0_ | 1. fol. 2b-38b: Murshid al-mutaʼahhil / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Iznīqī, a manual for married life and the mutual duties of parents and children. |
| 505 | 8_ | 2. fol. 39a-43b: Īqāẓ al-nāʼimīn / Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī, a short treatise asserting that piety and good works for utilitarian ends are void and bad. |
| 505 | 8_ | 3. fol. 46a-50b: Dhukhr al-mulūk / Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʻAlī al-Bīrkilī, a short work extolling the just ruler, condemning the despot and offering advice to potentates. Also known as Naṣīḥat al-mulūk. |
| 505 | 8_ | 4. fol. 51a-55a? [Work on religious propriety], a fragmentary work incomplete at the beginning. |
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500 __ Collation: Parchment ; fol. 268 ; 1⁶, 2-10⁸, 11⁴, 12-34⁸, 35² ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
500 __ Collation: Paper ; fol. 140 ; 1-35⁴; quiremarks on the first folio of each quire ; modern foliation in pencil.
500 __ Collation: Paper ; 1-20⁸, 21⁸⁻¹ ; the eighth leaf of the twenty-first quire (fols. 161r-167v) has been removed without any loss of text.
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500 __ Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 59 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-22 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. 500 __ Collation: Paper ; fol. 124 + iii ; catchwords in red ; pagination in black ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. |
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500 __ Description: Written in insular phase II half-uncial, with interlinear Old English gloss in AngloSaxon pointed miniscule.
500 __ Description: Written in black ink in various hands ; a few folios are missing.
500 __ Description: Headings and initials of each section in red ink ; watermarks (similar to Briquet, Les filigranes, no. 9447 (Lettres assemblées, IBC, surmounted by a three-leaf clover), which was used around 1597 in Reggio Emilia) ; MS in poor condition.
500 __ Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition with a few repairs.
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500 __ Decoration: Full-page miniatures. 10 canon tables with decorative frames, figures and ornament.
500 __ Decoration: Contains drawings colored in blue, green, yellow, brown, blue-grey, and tan.
500 __ Decoration: Illuminated figures of rulers with armorial shields, windroses, and cities with banners.
500 __ Decoration: There are large red ink initials O on fols. 9r and 13r, with the letter expanded top and bottom by waving plumes. The latter initial is partially painted over with carmine. There are other more discreet initials on fols. 16v and 21v.
563 Binding
Date and place the binding when possible. Attempt to categorize it as contemporaneous, later or modern where a more specific dating isn't possible. When binders are known, make an added entry.
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563 __ Germany, 15th century. Probably bound in 1444 (or shortly afterwards) when Sinram donated the present manuscript along with 60 others to the Franciscan monastery (Franziskaner-Minoriten) of Würzburg.
563 __ Original binding, discreetly restored, green morocco, spine ribbed decorated with a dolphin and a lily between nerves, framing on the dishes with lily flowers at the corners, golden arms in the center, red morocco with guards framing lace dolphin gilt edges.
563 __ Eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt decoration to spine and board edges.
| Islamic: Use these elements, in this order whenever possible. Omit any element that can't be determined. Type II binding should not be categorized as half- or quarter- bound. Add additional information about decoration in separate sentence(s). Pastedown and flyleaf details and endbands are mentioned here. | |||
Contemporaneous | half-bound quarter-bound | type II (with flap) binding | in xx leather and xx paper |
563 __ Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow spotted paper. 563 __ Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Leather doublures with block-pressed design in silver. 563 __ Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Pastedowns and flyeaves gold-speckled red paper. 563 __ Contemporaneous binding in oblong or safinah format in red leather. Blind-tooled edging. Leather fasteners. 563 __ Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and embossed orange paper. It appears that it was never sewn. In a case (171 x 123 mm.) with a green fabric pull strap. | |||
500 Origin (core)
500 __ Origin: Written and rubricated in Italy in the early 17th century.
500 __ Origin: Written at the monastery of Tathev (old form Statheus) in the northeastern part of greater Armenia.
500 __ Origin: Written in Spain in the 15th century.
Islamic: Provide day of the week, day, month and year if available and the name of the copyist. Mention where the information came from as well as providing a folio reference. 500 __ Origin: According to colophon copied copied 958 (fol. 324b). 500 __ Origin: According to colophon copied al-Khamīs 19 Rabīʻah I by Aḥmad ʻArafah ibn Aḥmad ʻArafah al-Rashīdī. (fol. 12a). 500 __ Origin: According to colophon copied in the middle of Ṣafar 1206 in Dār al-Ṣalṭanah Iṣfahān (fol. 152b). |
561 Ownership and custodial history
561 __ Early provenance unknown. It was the property of the monk Leontios in the 10th-11th century, who wrote a 4-line invocation in the form of a cross in the middle of fol. 174v. This invocation is followed by another in a later 16th-century hand. The manuscript was possibly in the Monastery of St. John Prodromos (shelfmark [alpha] 20) ‡5 NjP
561 __ Formerly in the collection of Constantine Simonides. ‡5 NjP
561 __ Bookplate of W.T. Scheide. ‡5 NjP
561 __ Sold by Robert L. Stevenson (Messenger at Arms) of Duns, Scotland, at auction at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, where it was purchased by Maggs Bros.; obtained by John H. Scheide from Maggs Bros. (Cat. 565, 1931, no. 858). ‡5 NjP
561 __ The name Aḥmad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn al-ʻUmrī is written on fol. 1a. Several reading statements and ownership statements, some hardly legible, on fol. 2a. Waqf statement in the name of al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUmrī Ibn Muḥammad Efendi Quṭb al-Dīn for the seekers of science, dated 1179 H. on the upper margin of fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. ‡5 NjP
561 __Ownership signatures on fol. 1a: al-Sayyid Muḥammad Saʻīd, teacher, with his seal impression; obscured signature and seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900. ‡5 NjP
541 Immediate source of acquisition
541 __ Purchase by John H. Scheide from antiquarian Joseph Baer in 1922. ‡5 NjP
Follow establishing wording for specific collections.
541 __ ‡c Gift ; ‡a Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; ‡d 1942. ‡5 NjP
541 __ ‡c Gift ; ‡a William H. Scheide, Princeton Class of 1936. ‡5 NjP
510 Citation/reference
510 4_ E.G. Turner, The Typology of the Early Codex. (1977) ‡c xvii.
510 4_ De Ricci, ‡c p. 2125, no. 29.
510 4_ Hitti, P. Garrett coll., ‡c 3142.
655 Form/genre terms for special elements
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Illustration / Decoration
655 _7 illuminations (paintings) ‡2 aat
655 _7 illuminated manuscripts ‡2 aat
655 _7 diagrams ‡2 aat
655 _7 tables (documents) ‡2 aat
655 _7 scientific illustrations (images) ‡2 aat
655 _7 Illustrated works ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 headpieces (layout features) ‡2 aat
655 _7 tailpieces (layout features) ‡2 aat
655 _7 Anthropomorphic letters ‡2 rbmscv (human figures only)
655 _7 figure initials ‡2 aat (animal and hybrid figures)
655 _7 historiated initials ‡2 aat
655 _7 decorated initials ‡2 aat
655 _7 Manicules ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Decorated edges ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 cut-paper work ‡2 aat
Binding
655 _7 Blind tooled bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Gold tooled bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Silver tooled bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Cloth bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Headbands ‡2rbmscv
655 _7 Doublures ‡2rbmscv
655 _7 Leather doublures ‡2rbmscv
655 _7 Vellum doublures ‡2rbmscv
655 _7 Centerpiece and cornerpiece bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Velvet bindings ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Wooden boards ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Bosses (Bindings) ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Clasps ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Ties ‡2 rbmscv
Paper
655 _7 Embossed papers ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Watermarks ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Parchment (Paper) ‡2 rbpap – DO NOT USE THIS, LOOK FOR NEW TERM
655 _7 Colored papers ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 Sprinkled papers ‡2 rbmscv
655 _7 impressed watermarks ‡2 aat
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710 2_ Princeton University. ‡b Library. ‡k Manuscript. ‡n Garrett MS. 32.
710 2_ Princeton University. ‡b Library. ‡k Manuscript. ‡n Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 108H.
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