Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī 1181 or 1182-1235—Tāʼīyah—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 36H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on a poem in Yāʼ by Ibn al-Fāriḍ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 1b, l. 15-16).
• Pen exercice on fol. 36b. Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover, reading: "1129" (see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue, no. 36).
• Collation: Paper, fol. ii, 36 ; ii + (modern fly-leaves) 1⁸ (+1, fol. 9) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸ (-1, after fol. 36) + ii (modern fly-leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "Kāf 2" (see fol. 10a).
• Layout: 19-22 lines per page.
• Description: Written in thick medium large script in black ink with use of red ; watermarks ; water damage (apparently with no loss of text).
• Origin: Copy completed on a Friday at the end of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1103 [January 1692] by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Karīm al-Dīn al-Fashanī? al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 36a).
• Incipit: قال سيدنا ومولانا العبد الفقير ... جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن سيدنا ومولانا ... ابي بكر السيوطي الشافعي ... قال الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا رسول الله هذا شرح القصيدة البديعة البليغة اليائية نظم الاستاذ ... عمر بن الفارض ... [5أ] ... سايق الازمان يطوي البيد طي منعماً عرج علي كثبان طَيْ ش مهايق بالنصب منادي حذف منه حرف الندا
• Explicit: نصب في مصدر وقضي اسم الجد الاعلي لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلي اله واصحابه وازواجه واتباعه ومحببه صلاة وسلاما دايمين الي يوم الدين تم الكتاب

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper over paper pasteboards. Modern paper pastedowns.

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.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 52

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

شرح تائية ابن الفارض للسيوطي

Title in black ink on the upper cover

• Sharḥ Tāʼīyah Ibn al-Fāriḍ lil-Suyūṭī

OCLC

76963850

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