Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr.
كتاب ديوان مصر

Authors

• Vella, Giuseppe, -1815

Other related names

• Probsthain & Co, bookseller

Call number

MS Or 388 Folio
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: ocn855210045
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_388.html https://archive.org/details/ldpd_12993928_000
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10421986

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1793

Place

Palermo, Italy

Summary

A forgery by Giuseppe Vella of what purport to be documents exchanged between several Norman rulers of Sicily and Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. The text is written in a mixture of Arabic and what is probably Maltese. Vella translated this work into Italian and published it in 1793 under the title Libro del consiglio di Egitto.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Leaves are 210 mm mounted in sheets 280 mm.
   
• Title from title page and introduction (p. 2).
   

Extent

216, iv leaves : 282 x 210 (190 x 135) mm, bound to 282 x 215 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather flap style binding with metal clasp; gold tooling on boards and flap; Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr (title) in gold on spine [detached]; yellow, red, and black decorated endpapers; speckled edges.

Layout

30 long lines.

Script

Written in a maghribi in reddish ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Probsthain & Co.; listed as number 1345 in Probsthain's Oriental Catalogue no. 20, part II (1910) (note laid in).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--Forgeries
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Forgery of manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts--1793
• Early works to 1800
• Forgeries (derivative objects)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Flap bindings (Binding)
• Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
• Leather bindings (Binding)
• Flap bindings (Binding)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

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