Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh 1003 or 1004-1071—Risālah al-jiddīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Mālikī, Yaʻqūt ibn Aḥmad Mursī, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• مالكي، يعقوت بن احمد مرسي، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 128H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1003 or 1004-1071. Risālah al-jiddīyah. [Browse]
• ابن زيدون، احمد بن عبد الله، 1003 or 4-1071. رسالة الجدية. [Browse]

Summary note

The text of, and commentary on the epistle of Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ghālib ibn Zaydūn al-Makhzūmī al-Andulusī 394-463 [1003/4-1070], which he sent to the king Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Jahwar, who reigned 435-450 [1043/4-1058/9], begging to be released from prison.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 146 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in excellent condition.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon occur two odes, one by Muḥammad Khalīfah and the other a eulogy of the first ode.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 18 Shaʻbān 1299 by Yaʻqūt ibn Aḥmad Mursī al-Mālikī (fol. 144 b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم بعون الله نقل هذا الشرح قبل الظهر من يوم الثلاثاء المبارك المتم ثمانية عشر شعبان المعظم سنة 1299 الف ومايتين وتسع وتسعين من هجرة سيد الاولين والاخرين صلى الله عليه وعلى اله واصحابه الائمة المهديين امين امين على يد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير ياقوت بن الحاج احمد مرسي المالکي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واخوانه والمسلمين امين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون. الحمد لله الذى شرح صدورنا بالاسلام

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather (partially dyed violet). Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and tooled frame. Flap has stamped motif and tooled edging. Red marbled pastedown and endpaper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8608.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1240².
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3316/7.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 404.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 497, 543.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 190.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288343474

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