Details

Subject(s)

• Mamelukes—Genealogy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—Kings and rulers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Shabāsī, Ibrāhīm [Browse]

Related name

• شباسي، ابراهيم [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 186H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A thesis tracing the genealogy of Riḍwān Bey the Great, a scion of the Burjī Mamlūks. He lived probably around the middle of the XVIIth century. The MS incidentally contains a fairly accurate list of the Burjī Mamlūks with the period of each reign.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet lettering "V" and others) ; MS in good condition, some folios loose.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Rabīʻ I 1183 by Ibrāhīm al-Marzūfī al-Shabāsī (fol. 20a).
• The author acknowledges his dependence on a previous work by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Ṣafadī who died, according to a statement in our MS, 980 [1572/3].
• Title from text (fol. 1b-2a).
• Colophon: وقد تمت النسخة الميمونة کتابة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في شهر ربيع الاول سنة 1183 الف وماية [و ثلاثة وثمانين على يد کاتبها راجي عفو ربه ابراهيم المرزوفي الشباسي المالکي غفرالله له ولجميع المسلمين. امين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله مانح الجود

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with a block-pressed design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 610.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292559119

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