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Subject(s)

• Africa, North—Travel and description—18th century [Browse]
• Tripoli (Libya)—History—18th century [Browse]
• Islamic poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn ʻAbd al-Salām, Muḥammad -1823 or 1824—Travel [Browse]

Summary note

Text is a compendium of poetry, poetry commentaries, and Sufi texts from a variety of sources as well as part of a travel narrative. Also includes some personal observations of contemporary events concerning Tripoli, N. Africa by the copiest.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On spine: Arḥilah insāʼ muryah (?).
• Physical description: Written in crude Maghribi script in brown on white glazed, laid paper. Headings and keywords in red ink. Ruled border in red ink around text except for f. 172b-178b. Text block has been trimmed. Marginal notes in the same hand as the text. Leaves 80b, 81, 176, 177 and 178a blank.
• Origin: Several sections dated 1210 H. (1795 or 6) (fol. 5a, 86a).
• Incipit: هذه المنظومة العلامة الشيخ علي الطحاوي ...
• Explicit: ورجع الى الطرابلس وتخلى عن المله لابنه احمد باش في سنه ...

Binding note

Quarter leather with buckram covers; stamped central medallion and fillets.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-116b: [Poetry and commentaries on poems]. Poets include ʻAlī al-Ṭaḥāwī, Ibn Bādīs, al-Suyūṭī, Ibn al-Wardī, and many others.
• 2. fol. 116b-140a: Dhikr al-rāḥāt al-dākhilah wa-mā ... (?) al-ʻajāʼib.
• 3. fol. 140b-175a: Hādhā nubdhah min riḥlat al-Shaykh al-ʻallām al-ʻAllāmah ... (?) Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir.
• 4. fol. 175a-175b: [Extracts by a different hand].
• 5. fol. 178b: [Dates concerning the history of Tripoli in the 18th century].

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Provenance

Originally part of the collection of Abraham Shalom Yahuda, ELS No. 3144 (inner front cover).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.

Other title(s)

• Majmūʻat manẓūmat al-Ṭaḥāwī fī marrat al-rusul wa-riḥlat ibnihi Nāṣir.
• مجموعة منظومة الطحاوي في مرة الرسل ورحلة ابنه ناصر.

OCLC

122958791

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