Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥarīrī 1054-1122—Maqāmāt [Browse]
• حريري، 1054-1122—مقامات [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 133H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A commentary on the famous Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 67 + iii (paginated 1-138 rather than foliated) ; catchwords ; modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circular design) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Name of each ʻʻassemblyʼʼ in the margin opposite. On title page is a note explaining words of a prayer.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 979 (fol. 133a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله تعالى في يوم الاثنين المبارك الخامس عشر من شهر ذي الحجة الحرام ختام شهور سنة تسع وسبعين وتسعماية والحمد لله وصلواته. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وازواجه وسلم تسليما دائما الى يوم الدين وغفر لکاتبه ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاحبايه [لاحبائه] ولسائر المسلمين اجمعين. آمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة. الحمد لله على فضله العميم

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and black and red marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Pastedowns and flyleaves gold-sprinkled red paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3939¹.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 562.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 61.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 198.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288344749

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