Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Weights and measures, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Darawī, Muḥammad Haykal, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• دروي، محمد هيكل، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5H. [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Wāsiṭī, al-Imām. Tanfīs al-shiddah wa-bulūgh al-murād fī Takhmīs al-Burdah wa-hiya Bānat Suʻād. [Browse]
• واسطي، الامام. تنفيس الشدة وبلوغ المراد في تخميس البردة وهي بانة سعاد. [Browse]
• Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr. Qaṣīdat al-Burdah. [Browse]
• كعب بن زهير. قصيدة البردة. [Browse]
• Ghimrīnī, ʻAlī ʻAṭīyah, active 1775. Qurrat al-ʻayn fī maʻrifat al-qillatayn. [Browse]
• غمريني، علي عطية، active 1775. قرة العين في معرفة القلتين. [Browse]

Summary note

A Takhmīs of the famous Burdah, a eulogy of the Prophet delivered in his presence by Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr. Followed by Qurrat al-ʻayn fī maʻrifat al-qillatayn, a short text on weights.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. v + 6 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and takhmīs in black ; MS in excellent condition.
• Layout: 24 lines per page.
• Marginal notes.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: [Tanfīs al-shiddah] Copied Ramaḍān 1191 by Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī (fol. 5a) ; [Qurrat al-ʻayn] Copied Sunday 10 Ramaḍān 1191 by Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī (fol. 6b).
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: [تنفيس الشدة] تمت القصيدة اللامية بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد افقر عباد ربه واحوجهم الى عفوه ومغفرته محمد هيکل الدروي غفر الله [له] ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين ; [قرة العين ] ووافق الفراغ من نسخها يوم الاحد المبارك العاشر من رمضان المعظم سنة 1191 على يد افقر عباد ربه واحوجهم الى عفوه ومغفرته محمد هيکل الدروي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين آمين
• Incipit: [تنفيس الشدة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ان قيل ما بال الجسم منك معلول ; [قرة العين ] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول الحقيرعلي عطية

Binding note

Later half-bound type III binding (without flap) in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-5a: Tanfīs al-shiddah wa-bulūgh al-murād fī Takhmīs al-Burdah wa-hiya Bānat Suʻād / al-Imām al-Wāsiṭī.
• 2. fol. 5b-6b: Kitāb Qurrat al-ʻayn fī maʻrifat al-qillatayn / ʻAlī ʻĀṭīyah al-Ghamrīnī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 5.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1290184669

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