Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—History—640-1882—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Egypt—Kings and rulers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Shirbīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Ḥamīd [Browse]

Related name

• شربيني، احمد بن عمر حميد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 182H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A history of Muslim dynasties in Egypt, beginning with the rise of Islam and the Muslim conquest of Egypt and ending with the commencement of the reign of the Turkish governor Aḥmad Pāshā 1042 [1633].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 103 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (star?) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 6 Rajab 1064 by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Ḥamīd al-Shirbīnī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 103a).
• The chronicles are carried to 1042 [1632/3], while the author died 1033 [1624]. Evidently there were later additions.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الجمعة سادس شهر رجب الفرد سنة اربعة وستين والف وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل وعلى الله توکلنا
• Incipit: بسم الله ... قال العبد الفقير ... مرعي بن يوسف

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6829/30.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1826-31.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 395, 889 (f. 197-210)
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 920-22.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 607.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1642.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1291216386

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