Autograph commentary on the famous Seven Suspended Odes.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 270 + (1) + 1 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in brown/black ; MS in fair condition, some leaves detached, binding partially detached, some leaves mended ; some smearing of text.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On title-page occurs a charm in verse and some writing. On the page after the colophon is a table of genealogy; last folio has charms one of which is dated 1249 (1833/34) and one attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
Origin: According to colophon begun 1 Muḥarram 1155 and completed 1 Safar 1157 by the author Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Faḍl al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṭabarī al-Malikī, Imam of the Maqam Abraham (fol. 269b-270a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title written on top edge barely legible, possibly: Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.
Colophon: حرره بقلمه تسويدًا الفقير الى الله الامام محمد ابن الامام علي بن الامام فضل الحسيني الشافعي الطبري المکي امام المقام الابراهيمي الملقب بالجمال الاخير عفا الله عنه ووالديه واحسن اليهما واليه والمسلمين آمين يا رب العالمين
Incipit:. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله الذي رفع لواء المعلقات السبع على الاعناق
Binding note
Contemporaneous type II binding (with flap) of brown leather and plain glazed paper. In a case (223 x 170 mm.) of red leather with embossed covers and a top edge flap lined with marbled paper.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Two obscured seal impressions (fol. 1a). After the colophon is an autograph of an owner, Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad Amrīḥi al-Sharīf al-Zalabān. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Muʻallaqāt.
معلقات.
Title from label on top flap of case
Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ
OCLC
1285315262
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