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Subject(s)

• Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr—Qaṣīdat al-Burdah [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [Browse]
• Devotional poetry, Arabic [Browse]
• Islamic poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Mallawī, ʻAbd al-Karīm Aḥmad [Browse]

Related name

• ملوي، عبد الكريم احمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 6H. [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Bānat Suʻād, composed, according to the text, from extracts from the commentary of Muḥammad al-Amīr and others -- see beginning of text on fol. 1b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 73 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red.
• Origin: Copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm Aḥmad al-Mallawī -- colophon (fol. 73a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي تفرد بالوحدانيه قبل الايجاد ... اما بعد فيقول المرتجي عفو المساوي محمد صالح السباعي الحفناوي هذا شرح لطيف
• Explicit: قوم اذا خوت النجوم فانهم للطرفين النازلين مقار

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown and red marbled paper.

Language note

In Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 6.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 69 (23).

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

174538738

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