Details

Subject(s)

• Subkī, Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī 1284-1355—Tāʼīiyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 991H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Tāʼīyah, an ode rhyming in tāʼ in praise of the Prophet by Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. On the title page are several verses of poetry by Ḥusayn al-Maḥallī. On back of the last page is a tradition. The last eleven folios were supplied by a later hand (fol. 161-171).
• Collation: ii + 171 + vii ; quires partially signed: 1-15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله ذي البرالغامر والفضل الوافر ... اما بعد فقد سألني جماعة من الاخوان ... في شرح القصيدة التائية المشهورة بالسبکية
• Colophon: تمت ولله الحمد

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 104.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 267.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425195

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