Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 39H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Witrī, Muḥammad ibn Rashīd, -1263 or 1264. Witrīyah. [Browse]
• وتري، محمد بن رشيد، -1263 or 1264. وترية. [Browse]

Summary note

Amplification (takhmīs) of the Witrīyah odes of Muḥammad al-Witrī al-Baghdādī, 662 [1263/4] in praise of the Prophet.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 60 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Poem in red and amplification (takhmīs) in black ; endpapers light green ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b)
• Colophon: قد تم التخميس لوتريات الشيخ البغدادى رحمه الله تعالى على التمام والکمال والحمد لله على کل حال غفر الله لکاتبها وناقلها وقاريها وسامعها ومؤلفها ولکل المسلمين اجمعين بجاه سيد المرسلين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بفضل بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين على القوم الکافرين

Binding note

Later half-bound western binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 59.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• کتاب الوتريات ومعدن الانوارات في امداح النبي.
• تخميس لوتريات الشيخ البغدادي

Also known under the title

• Kitāb al-Witrīyāt wa-maʻdin al-anwārāt fī amdāḥ al-Nabī

Title from colophon (fol. 60a)

• Takhmīs li-Witrīyāt al-Shaykh al-Baghdādī

OCLC

1286281188

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