Details

Subject(s)

• Didactic poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī, active 1583 [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of mnemonic verses and versified rules from various disciplines. Copy incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol.1a). The same title appears on a label pasted on the upper cover.
• The author seems to be the same as Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Bukhārī ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Maʻālī al-Makkī, the author of Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh (GAL, II, 385; SII, 519; Zirikli, VI, 184), listed as Khaṭīb al-Madīnah in Hadiyat al-ʻĀrifīn (2, 256).
• 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark (Tre lune). Several fāʼidah on fol. 1a and on the margins. Inscription in Arabic on the pastedown of the lower cover. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اخرج من البحر الفرايد وجعل فيها جزيل الخلو
• Explicit (as extant): وقال ايضا مظاهر جليت والعين واحدة لعصات موسي واسرار المقالات

Binding note

Yellow paper upper and lower covers with leather spine. Disbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 30
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 378/2
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 509/2

Other title(s)

عقد الفرائد فيما نظم من الفوائد

Title in the preamble (fol. 1b) and in Mach, R. Yahuda

ʻIqd al-Farāʼid fī-mā nuẓima min al-fawāʼid

OCLC

76160533

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