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Sīrat al-Malik al-Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn wa-wazīrihi al-Sayyid al-Walī al-Khiḍr wa-mā jará la-hum min al-kalām wa-al-ʻajīb wa-al-amr al-muṭrib al-gharīb

Title Sīrat al-Malik al-Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn wa-wazīrihi al-Sayyid al-Walī al-Khiḍr wa-mā jará la-hum min al-kalām wa-al-ʻajīb wa-al-amr al-muṭrib al-gharīb
Author Ṣūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mufarrij, -approximately 1495
Publication Date: 1176?-16 Ramaḍān 1180 [1762 or 1763-February 15, 1767]
Subject Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—Romances—Early works to 1800[Browse]Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—Legends—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type kitap
Language Arabic
Digital No
Manuscript Yes
Physical Dimensions 2 volumes (242, 176) leaves : paper ; 293-325 x 195-225 (230-240 x 125-130) mm bound to 300-325 x 214-235 mm.
Library: Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 1340424534
Record ID 9963573463506421
Library Location Special Collections - Manuscripts
Date 1176?-16 Ramaḍān 1180 [1762 or 1763-February 15, 1767]
Notes Ms. codex.Title from title page, volume 1 (fol. 1a).Marginal notes.Collation: Paper ; volume 1: ii (later paper) + (1) + 242 + iii (later paper); volume 2: i + 176 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (vol. 1 only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 25-28 lines per page.Description: Rubricated (vol. 1 only) ; watermarks (vol. 2: three crescents) ; MS in fair to good condition.Origin: First volume apparently completed in 1176 (v. 1, fol. 240b). According to colophon volume 2 completed 16 Ramaḍān 1180 by Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Qīrrī? (v. 2, fol. 176a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الملك الجبار الرحيم الستار العظيم ... اما بعد فقد قال الشيخ العارف ابو اسحاق ابن مفرج الصوري رحما لله تعالي اما بعد فقد وقفت علي ساير وفصص الانبيا وسير الملوك ...Colophon (vol. 1): تم النصف الاول من سيرة اسکندر ذي القرنين ابن داراب الرومي والله الموفق للصواب واليه المرجع والمآب - Volume 1: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper. Volume 2: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind tooled edging on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Block pressed design on blue paper pastedowns. Volume is larger than volume 1. - A biography of Alexander the Great and a history of his conquests, with many legends about him.
Bağışçı Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961[Browse]
Getty Türü romances (medieval narratives)[Browse]
Kongre Kütüphanesi Türü Romances[Browse]
Diğer Biçimler Also available in an electronic version.
Kaynak Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-Qāḍī ibn ʻUthmān al-Hindī, obscured names, with dates of 1188 and 1233, seal impressions (v. 1, fol. 1a); Saʻd dated 1182, Aḥmad? Rafʻat (f. 2, fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Nadir Kitap Türü Blind tooled bindings[Browse]Autographs[Browse]Stamps[Browse]Watermarks[Browse]
Referanslar Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 735, 735.Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 707-9.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9109.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3682-5.Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2385-93.
Katip Qīrrī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, active 18th century[Browse]
Edinme Kaynağı Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Standart Başlık Sīrat al-Iskandar[Browse]سيرة الاسكندر[Browse]
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Sīrat al-Malik al-Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn wa-wazīrihi al-Sayyid al-Walī al-Khiḍr wa-mā jará la-hum min al-kalām wa-al-ʻajīb wa-al-amr al-muṭrib al-gharīb

Author Ṣūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mufarrij, -approximately 1495
Publication Date 1176?-16 Ramaḍān 1180 [1762 or 1763-February 15, 1767]
Subject Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—Romances—Early works to 1800[Browse]Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—Legends—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type kitap
Language Arabic
Digital No
Manuscript Yes
Physical Dimensions 2 volumes (242, 176) leaves : paper ; 293-325 x 195-225 (230-240 x 125-130) mm bound to 300-325 x 214-235 mm.
Library Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 1340424534
Record ID 9963573463506421
Library Location Special Collections - Manuscripts
Date 1176?-16 Ramaḍān 1180 [1762 or 1763-February 15, 1767]
Notes Ms. codex.Title from title page, volume 1 (fol. 1a).Marginal notes.Collation: Paper ; volume 1: ii (later paper) + (1) + 242 + iii (later paper); volume 2: i + 176 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (vol. 1 only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 25-28 lines per page.Description: Rubricated (vol. 1 only) ; watermarks (vol. 2: three crescents) ; MS in fair to good condition.Origin: First volume apparently completed in 1176 (v. 1, fol. 240b). According to colophon volume 2 completed 16 Ramaḍān 1180 by Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Qīrrī? (v. 2, fol. 176a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الملك الجبار الرحيم الستار العظيم ... اما بعد فقد قال الشيخ العارف ابو اسحاق ابن مفرج الصوري رحما لله تعالي اما بعد فقد وقفت علي ساير وفصص الانبيا وسير الملوك ...Colophon (vol. 1): تم النصف الاول من سيرة اسکندر ذي القرنين ابن داراب الرومي والله الموفق للصواب واليه المرجع والمآب - Volume 1: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper. Volume 2: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind tooled edging on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Block pressed design on blue paper pastedowns. Volume is larger than volume 1. - A biography of Alexander the Great and a history of his conquests, with many legends about him.
Bağışçı Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961[Browse]
Getty Türü romances (medieval narratives)[Browse]
Kongre Kütüphanesi Türü Romances[Browse]
Diğer Biçimler Also available in an electronic version.
Kaynak Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-Qāḍī ibn ʻUthmān al-Hindī, obscured names, with dates of 1188 and 1233, seal impressions (v. 1, fol. 1a); Saʻd dated 1182, Aḥmad? Rafʻat (f. 2, fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Nadir Kitap Türü Blind tooled bindings[Browse]Autographs[Browse]Stamps[Browse]Watermarks[Browse]
Referanslar Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 735, 735.Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 707-9.Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9109.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3682-5.Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2385-93.
Katip Qīrrī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, active 18th century[Browse]
Edinme Kaynağı Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Standart Başlık Sīrat al-Iskandar[Browse]سيرة الاسكندر[Browse]
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