• [Treatise on chess].

Language:
  • Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1192H
Extent:
  • 14 leaves : paper, diagrams ; 207 x 153 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: Two diagrams per page with marginal commentary on a slant.
  • Description: In red and black ink ; MS in good condition.
Publisher:
  • [between 1850 and 1899]
Subject:
  • Chess
  • Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
  • diagrams
Date:
  • 1850-1899
Abstract:
  • Diagrams showing 24 different plays in the game of chess; explanations for most of them are written in the margins in red and black.
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1192H
Collections:
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcdz011285p
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 167
Text language:
  • Turkish;
Binding note:
  • Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue paper.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1192H
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