Details

Subject(s)

• Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr—Qaṣīdah [Browse]
• 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. 58H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Contains

• Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr. Qaṣīdah. [Browse]
• ابو العباس البصير. قصيدة. [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph commentary on an amplification (takhmīs) of the pentastich poem of Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr in praise of the Prophet.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 108 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubicated ; verse separators and other use of red ; some headings and other words overwritten in red ink, possibly at a later time or by a different hand ; MS in poor condition with a number of repairs and some staining.
• Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses in different hands. On title page is a statement showing the wisdom of the Prophetʼs having been born on a Monday in Rabīʻ [I], a statement that the MS was written by the author himself. On page after colophon are a quotation of verse and prose ascribed to al-Shāfiʻī, another ascribed to Abū Zayd al-Bisṭāmī and eight verses of poetry entitled al-Mukhammas al-Laṭīf.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 23 Jumādá al-Awwal 774 by the author (fol. 108b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وافق الفراغ من تعليقه على يد مؤلفه عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن ابرهيم الرشيدي عفا الله تعالى عنه وعن والديه بمحمد وآله يوم الاحد ثالث عشرين جمادى الاول سنة اربع وسبعين وسبعمائة احسن الله تقصيرنا بخير وعاقبة بلا محنة انه على ما يشاء قدير والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم. الحمد لله الذي نور بشمس معرفته قلوب اوليايه [اوليائه

Binding note

Type II binding (with flap) in red leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Raʼīs Muḥammad al-Zaman dated 1180, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Raʼīs dated 1208 (fol. 1a). Under the colophon on the same page are two autographs of owners, one an Imām of a Madrasah. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 90.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285426723

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