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Subject(s)

• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1213?-1296?—Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Bulūkbāshī, Rajab ibn Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• بلوكباشي، رجب بن محمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 50H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures (Binding) [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Qaṣīdah al-hamẓīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and summaries. Text in red and commentary in black. After colophon is a note that the copy was made for ʻAlī ibn Hibat Allāh Afandī, a former mufti of Tripoli (Syria). The copyist wrongly gives the date of the death of Ibn Ḥajar in 994 [1586].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 362 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout:17-19 lines per page.
• Description: Entries in red ; MS in good condition ; paper changes after fol. 190 and ink bleeds through the page slightly.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Shaʻbān 1157 by Rajab ibn Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-al-Bulūkbāshī (fol. 362a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي اختص نبينا محمد اصلى الله عليه وسلم بكتاب اخر الفصحاء واعجز الملغا ...
• Colophon: محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم بکتاب اخرس الفصحاء واعجز البلغاء. وکان الفراغ من نسخه ليلة الجمعة اواخر شعبان المعظم الذي هواحد شهور سن 1157 سبع وخمسين ومائة والف على يد کاتبه الفقير الحقير السيد رجب بن السيد محمد الشهير بالبلوکباشي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين الاحياء منهم والميتين وآخر دعوانا ان الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا الى يوم الدين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark red leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla and decorative edging. Multi-colored endbands. Leather doublures with block-pressed design in silver.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 75.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 557.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7820/1.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 824-6.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

افضل القرى لقراء ام القرى

Title on lower edge

• Sharḥ al-Hamzīyah

Also known under the tile

• Afḍal al-qirá li-qurrāʼ Umm al-qurá

OCLC

1286081375

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