Details

Subject(s)

• Damascus (Syria)—In literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 268H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy (tanmīq) of a treatise on the excellence of Damascus, in eight parts. See detailed description in Hitti, P. Garrett coll.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Several inscriptions in verse on fol. 1a. Table of contents written by a later hand on fol. 2b. Fol. 98a-102b: Blank. Inscription on the upper cover in black ink using Western numerals: "815."
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 120 ; ii (fly leaves with inscriptions, fol. 1 and 2 in the modern foliation) 1-10¹⁰ ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-10 ; foliation in magenta ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
• Origin: Copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣāliḥ Āghā al-Shāhbandar on Sunday 25 Shawwāl 1277 (colophon, fol. 97b).
• Incipit: حمداً لمن فجر ينابيع الحكم والاحكام كما فجر الارض ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر ... لما شرفنى هذه الجامع الشريف لادآء الصلاة اشرف الموالى.
• Explicit: ما اتى السعد قائلا لك ارخ باح فى الشام معدن الاسرار وقد كان الفراغ من تاليفه فى غرة شهر ربيع الثانى سنة اربعين ومائة والف كما افاد ذلك ما بعد لفظ ارخ الواقع فى الختام وهو ... صلى الله عليه وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and fabric over cardboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Green and yellow central stamped mandorla on both covers.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

• Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 757
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 409/13

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

فضائل الشام

Title on a spine label (vertical)

• Faḍāʼil al-Shām

OCLC

75968426

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