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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ibn ʻAllān, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad 1588-1648—Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb fī naẓm Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 225H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Cloth bindings (Binding) [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 author's commentary on Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb fī naẓm Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 103 + (4) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; watermarks (text has three crescents, later flyleaves have shield with face-in-the-moon and roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 27-37 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. Title page carries an obliterated inscription that it was composed in 1032 [1622/2]. After the colophon is a statement that the copy from which the present MS was made is full of flaws and mistakes. On the page after the colophon is a quotation from the Dalāʼil al-minhāj of al-Ḥalabī.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 20 Jumādá II 1053 (fol. 103a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم المصنف المبارك في ليلة الجمعة عشرين شهر جمادى الاخرى من سنة ثلاث وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي شرف نبيه على ساير الخلق

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in floral striped fabric. Under the fabric is red leather and cream paper.

Provenance

Title page carries two ownership signatures, one partially obliterated, and 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., 649.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292948230

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