Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 221H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of the Prophet in 1000 verses.

Notes

• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-4 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 27 Shaʻbān 1270 (fol. 37b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في يوم الخميس المبارك الموافق لسبع وعشرين من شهر شعبان سنة الف وماتين وسبعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التحية امين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن ... يقول راجي من اليه المهرب

Binding note

Unbound. Quires never sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 157⁴, 9584/5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 444.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 215/6.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 643.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1794.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Matn Alfīyat al-sīrah
• متن الفية السيرة
• Alfīyat al-sīrah
• الفية السيرة

OCLC

1292944526

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