Autography copy of a biography of the Prophet embracing: (1) his personal appearance, character, virtues and miracles, (2) his conquests, (3) his expeditions, (4) his delegates and emissaries, (5) his letters to the kings, (6) the writers of revelation, and a conclusion on his name and genealogy.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 19-20 lines per page.
Marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 4 Rabīʻ I 1117 by the author at Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar (fol. 72a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: ووافق الفراغ [منه] على يد کاتبه ومولفه الفقير عبد المعطي ابن سالم بن عمر الشبلي السملاوي بالجامع الازهر يوم الجمعة رابع ربيع اول سنة سبعة عشر وماية والف
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي شرف سيدنا محمد
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Quires not currently sewn.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 657.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
رياضات الزاهرات
Title from top edge
Riyāḍāt al-zāhirāt
OCLC
1293236394
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