Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 224H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb. [Browse]
• سيوطي، 1445-1505. انموذج اللبيب في خصائص الحبيب. [Browse]

Summary note

The versification of the work of al-Suyūṭī, Unmūdhaj al-labīb, on the virtues of the Prophet.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. In the text on folio 11a is given the date of the composition, namely II Rabīʻ 22, 1036 [Jan. 11, 1627].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents, clover?) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 31-37 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 27 Jumādá II 1053 (fol. 11b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت المنظومة الشريفة العالية المنيعة بحمد الله تعالى وکرمه ومنه في سابع وعشرين جمادى اخر [الاخر] سنة 1053 ثلاثة وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي قد شرفا

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Title page has two ownership signatures, one partially obliterated, the other for Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 648.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292945921

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