Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥarīrī 1054-1122—Maqāmāt [Browse]
• Ibn Barrī, ʻAbd Allāh 1106-1187 [Browse]
• Ibn al-Khashshāb, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad 1098 or 1099-1171 or 1172 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Maqamah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 134H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A short treatise arbitrating between Ibn Barrī, who championed the Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī, and Ibn al-Khashshāb, who criticised them.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 32 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Watermarks (includes the roman-alphabet letters V.G.[?]) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• On title page are three verses of poetry on love. On page after colophon are two verses of wisdom poetry and one on love.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 8 Shaʻbān 1217 (fol. 32a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: في الثامن من شهر شعبان سنة الف ومائتين وسبعة عشر.تم.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . الحمدلله مستحق الحمد ومستوجبه

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and embossed orange paper. It appears that it was never sewn. In a case (171 x 123) with a green fabric pull strap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 447, VI, p. 61.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 200.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حاشية على بعض الفاظ وقعت في المقامات الحريرية

Title from case

• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá baʻḍ alfāẓ waqaʻat fī al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah

OCLC

1288344890

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