Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 25H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166. Qaṣīdah. [Browse]
• عبد القادر الجيلاني، 1166. قصيدة. [Browse]
• Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣāḥib. Takhmīs Qaṣīdat al-Jīlānī. [Browse]
• بدر الدين بن الصاحب. تخميس قصيدة الجيلاني. [Browse]

Summary note

Amplification (takhmīs) of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlāniʼs poem which begins: mā fī al-ṣabābati manhilun mustaʻdhabu, by Ibn Ḥijjah and Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣāḥib.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 8 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in poor condition ; folios 2, 4, 5 and 7 are foxed and mended with gauze.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Marginal notes in different hands. The work was composed 797 (1394/95) in Maʻarrat al-Nuʻmān, where al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn Abī Bakr ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʻAdb-al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, a descendant of the great Jīlānī, asked Ibn Ḥijjah to amplify the poem and showed him a previous amplification of the same poem by Ibn al-Ṣāḥib. Ibn Ḥijjah, not pleased with previous amplification, decided to have it appear side by side with his own in order to reveal the marked differences. Ironically he called the work Rashf al-Manhilayn, his own and that of Ibn al-Ṣāḥib. First paragraph of MS indicates that same man at whose request work was composed is also scribe to whom Ibn Ḥijjah dictated MS.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a)
• Colophon: تمت بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله
• Incipit.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. مما وجد في کتاب ما صورته

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flaps) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 97.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285526279

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