Details

Subject(s)

• Manīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1678 or 1679-1758 or 1759—Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Badr, Battle of, Badr Ḥunayn, Saudi Arabia, 624—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. 1135H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Manīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1678 or 1679-1758 or 1759. Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr. [Browse]
• منيني، احمد بن علي، 1678 or 1679-1758 or 1759. استنزال النصر بالتوسل باهل بدر. [Browse]

Summary note

The text of, and the commentary on Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr, an ode containing the names of all those who took part on the side of the Prophet, in the Battle of Badr. The ode was occasioned by the appeal, circulated by Shaykh al-Islām, for special prayers for the Turkish army in its struggle against the Persian Nādir Shāh and was composed in 1158/1745.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 3a).
• A few marginal notes. Inscriptions on folio 141a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 141 ; catchwords ; watermarks (coat-of-arms; grapes?) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 4 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1195. Scribe's name has been erased (fol. 140b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى خص نبينا محمد اصلى الله عليه وسلم بخصائص اعلى له قدرا وميزه بكتاب احكمت اياته وشرح له به صدرا ...
• Colophon: وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة علي يد افقر العباد الى الله تعالى [...] في يوم الخميس المبارك رابع شهر ربيع الثانى الذى هو من شهور سنة خمس وتسعين ومائه والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها الفضل الصلاة والسلم

Binding note

Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled cross-hatch marks across the entire cover with a decorative edging.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-Shaybī, fātiḥ Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1969.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1352452536

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