Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Qaṣīdah al-Zaynabīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 11H [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661. Qaṣīdah al-Zaynabīyah. [Browse]
• علي بن ابي طالب، خليفة، approximately 600-661. قصيدة الزينبية. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the famous Zaynabīyah ode attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 108 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-11 ; pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals centered at the top in first part of the ms. ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
• Infrequent marginal notes, glosses and corrections.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; wide margin.
• Ms. codex.
• Title and variant title from title page (fol. 1a)
• Colophon: وهذ[ا] اخر ما ا[و]ردناه في اختصار هذه القصيدة والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين آمين. اللهم اغفر لمؤلفها وسامعها وکاتبها وقاريها وللمسلمين اجمعين آمين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على اشرف المرسلين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red paper with black motifs.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 44.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 219.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 14.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• تفاحة الوردية في شرح حل القصيدة الزينبية
• Qaṣīdah al-Zaynabīyah wa-tafsīruhā ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl.
• قصيدة الزينبية وتفسيرها على التمام والكمال.

Additional title from title page

• Tuffāḥah al-wardīyah fī sharḥ ḥall al-Qaṣīdah al-Zaynabīyah

OCLC

1285405061

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