الروض الانف / تأليف ابي القسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن الحسن الخثعمي ثم السهيلي.

al-Rawḍ al-unuf / taʼlīf Abī al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khathʻamī thumma al-Suhaylī.

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Manuscript, Book
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Arabic
Published/​Created
Dimashq ; [13th century?]
Description
3 volumes (206, 186, 200 leaves) : paper ; 255 x 170 (203 x 123) mm bound to 254 x 168 mm.

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  • Vol. 1-v. 3

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    Summary note
    Historical and grammatical commentary on Sīrat Rasūl Allāh by ʻAbd al-Mālik ibn Hishām.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page of volume 1 (fol. 1a).
    • Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. On title page of vol. I occurs a brief account of the author's life and his works. On the folio before the title page of vol. I are 18 verses of poetry in praise of the book by the author. On the inside of the front cover of vol. I is a statement in Latin about other copies of the same work. Volume 3 is in a different hand and binding; called "sifr al-thānī" on the title page, it is labeled "al-mujallad al-thālith" on the edge of the text block. Circular design drawn on fol. 186b of volume 2. Following the colophon in volume 3 is the short text Ikhtiṣār al-qawl by Abū Muḥammad Makkī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Qaysī.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 206 + i, i + 186 + i, ii + 200 + i ; catchwords (volumes 1-2) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (volume 1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: Volumes I and II, 19 lines per page; volume Ill, 25 lines per page
    • Description: Headings in black and red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
    • Origin: Volume 3 copied 11 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 634 by Ḥasan ibn Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣadaqah al-Azdī al-Ṣaflī in Damascus.
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم استعين قال الفقير الحافظ ابو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن احمد بن عبد الله بن الحسن الخثعمى ثم السهيلى ...
    • Colophon: كتبه الفقيرلرحمه ربه حسن ين ابي عبد الله بن صدقة الازدي الصفلي بدمشق ... الفراغ منه في الحادى عشره من ربيع الاخر سنة اربع وثلثين وستمائة والحمد على احسانه ...
    Binding note
    Later half-bound type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Volume 3 has gold-tooled edging and yellow paper pastedowns. Flaps missing on all three volumes.
    Contents
    • Vol. 1: [Beginning]-Faṣl wa-dhikr Yuḥannis al-Ḥawārī
    • v. 2: Bāb al-mabʻath-Ijtimāʻ Quraysh lil-mushāwarah fī amr
    • v. 3 (first labeled section): Faṣl wa-man qawlahu ʻalayhi al-salām ḥayna kharaj min Makkah
    Provenance
    Ownership signatures: [?] ibn Rustum ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shirwanī (vol. 1, fol. 2a and vol. 2, fol. 1a); Sharaf (vol. 1, fol. 2a); Abū Makram? Rustum al-Shīrwānī, Saʻdān ibn ʻIsá, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim, ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm ... al-Qādirī (vol. 3, fol. 1a) Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 638.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    روض الانف والمشرع الروي في سيرة رسول الله
    Title from title page of volume 2
    • Rawḍ al-unuf wa-al-mashraʻ al-rawī fī Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
    OCLC
    1340424518
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