Details

Subject(s)

• Ziftāwī, ʻAbd Allāh active 17th century—Badīʻīyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Figures of speech—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Qaṭāriyah, Ṭāha Maḥmūd ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• قطارية، طه محمود علي عبد الرحمن، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 443H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the Badīʻīyah, a rhetorical ode by ʻAbd Allāh al-Ziftāwī al-Khaṭīb who died after 1059 [1649].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 109 ; catchwords ; first two quires signed ; foliation using Hindu-Arabic numerals every 10th folio ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet lettering "Pordenone") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday early in Muḥarram 1287 by Ṭāha Maḥmūd ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Qaṭāriyah (fol. 109a).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان ... فسواه فعدله
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاربعاء بکرته من شهرالمحرم سنة 1287 على يد الراجي شمول الالطاف الخفية طه محمود علي عبد الرحمن قطارية م م م

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 569.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4420².
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4420².

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حسن الصنيع بشرح نور الربيع.

Title in Brockelmann and Hitti, P. Garrett Collection

• Ḥusn al-ṣanīʻ bi-sharḥ Nūr al-rabīʻ.

OCLC

1333952321

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