Details

Subject(s)

• Mamelukes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Seven (The number)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Symbolism of numbers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Egypt—History—1250-1517—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 142H [Browse]

Summary note

An encyclopedic work containing a prolegomena in seven chapters: (1) on the characteristics of the number seven, (2) the relation of al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Nāṣir to that number, (3) the boundaries of Egypt, (4) on the Sultanʼs being the seventh in the Turkish line, (5) the life of the sultan, (6) on strange conincidences, (7) explanation of some of the words in the book. These are followed by seven chapters: (1) the story of Joseph, (2) the story of Moses and Pharaoh, (3) lives of the kings of Egypt, (4) the life of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, (5) events that happened in Egypt, (6) Cairo, (7) seven flowers.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 117 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in fair condition, some pages mended. Title page lacking. The first page is defective.
• Layout: 22 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon is an Urjūzah min al-Ḥaḍar containing a prophecy about a king who will come from near Damascus and will in 903 [1497] seize Cairo and establish his rule over Syria and Egypt.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 2b).
• Colophon: على يد عبد [العبد] الفقير راجي رحمة رب [الرب] القدير شاهين ابن عبدالله المحمدي الشهير بين المماليك الملك الظاهر جقمق رحمه الله رحمة واسعة وللمسلمين اجمعين امين يا رب العالمين ولمن قرا ورد الى صاحبه. تم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه التوفيق. منه ... الطير ... واجرى البحار السبعة بقدرته

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and violet paper with block-stamped design in yellow and blue. Violet paper pastedowns and flyleaf attached to first and last folios.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8377/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 68.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 574, 604.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 207.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1658-66.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288631588

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