Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Mālikī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 15th century [Browse]

Related name

• مالكي، محمد بن احمد، active 15th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 56H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Muqrī, Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Zakarīyā. Rūḥ al-fuṣūl. [Browse]
• مقري، اسماعيل بن ابي زكريا. روح الفصول. [Browse]

Summary note

The original poems of al-Qīrāṭī together with some of his letters to various friends. Poems organized alphabetically by rhyming letter.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses in different hand. The work has been collected by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Subkī, whose name is mentioned on folios 4, 50 and 122. Title page and perhaps a few folios are missing. On the two folios after the colophon is an ode by Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Zakarīyā ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muqrī eulogizing al-Malik al-Ashraf Ismāʻīl ibn al-ʻAbbās. The five following folios have a number of letters labelled by a later hand as independent of the MS, but evidently they are by al-Qīrāṭī as well. One of the letters is addressed to Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqrīzī, the famous historian [1365-1442].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 128 + (1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; a few lightly pink-tinted folios ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 19 Ṣafar 835 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān ... al-Mālikī (fol. 122a).
• Incipit: الابديَّةً والمسرّات السرمديَّة في حنان لاهل ... اما بعد فان من الشعر حكمة وحكما ومن البيان سحوا ...
• Colophon: وکتب العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى المعترف بالتقصير الراجي عفوربه القدير محمد بن احمد بن عثمان ... المالکي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولناظمه ولجامعه ومالکه ومن نظر فيه من المسلمين والمسلمات. ويدعوا [ويدعو] لکاتبه بالتوبة والمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين آمين. ووافق فراغه يوم الاحد المبارك تاسع عشرين صفر سنة 835 احسن الله عاقبتها بمحمد وآله والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 91.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7868.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3209.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1087.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 325.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425446

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