Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad, Prophet, -632—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic poetry—14th century [Browse]
• Islamic poetry, Arabic—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a biography of the Prophet Muḥammad in 1000 rajaz verses (GAL).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 13 to 16 lines per page. Written in large casual naskh in thick black ink with use of red for decorations and re-inking. Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines (grouped by two and three) visible. Fol. 18-19 are later replacements (light cream glazed paper with chain and laid lines visible). Some words are crossed out with a later version in the margin (see fol. 13a). On fol. (i)a: Ownership statements with seals; waqf mention; inscriptions. On fol. 1a: Title; long note (almost illegible); ownership statements; waqf. Several reading statements in the margin of fol. 4a, 6a, etc. On fol. 37b-40b: Several audition certificates (samāʻ) by the author's hand, the last dated 12 Dhū al-Ḥujjah 791 H. [1389]. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Autograph, al-Madīnah (colophon, fol. 37b).
• Incipit: بسم ... يقول راجى من اليه المهرب عبد الرحيم بن حسين المذنب احمد ربّى باتم الحمد وللصلوة والسلام اهدى
• Explicit: وساير الاصحاب والولىّ

Binding note

Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly richly blind- and gold-tooled with a central roundel with geometrical motifs and an elaborate outer frame. The envelope flap has a portion of the same frame, with a roundel on its pointe. Embossed leather doublure.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4518
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 65 (7/2)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 70/2

Other title(s)

• Naẓm al-durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah
• نظم الدرر السنية في السير الزكية
• al-Durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah
• الدرر السنية في السير الزكية
• الدرر السنية في السيرة الزكية
• الفية السيرة
• الالفية في السير
• نظم الدرر في المغازي والسير

Title on a spine label (horizontal)

• al-Durar al-sanīyah fī al-sīrah al-zakīyah

Also known as

• Alfīyat al-sīrah
• al-Alfīyah fī al-siyar
• Naẓm al-durar fī al-maghāzī wa-al-siyar

OCLC

70315771

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