Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1H.

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DS ID:

DS2413

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1H.

Title:

Kitāb Imtāʻ al-baṣar wa-al-qalb wa-al-samʻ fī sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.

Place:

Mecca?

Mecca TGN

Date:

1 Muḥarram 1155-1 Safar 1157 March 7, 1742-March 15, 1744

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 270, (1) leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (180 x 140) mm. bound to 226 x 170 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 270 + (1) + 1 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in brown/black ; MS in fair condition, some leaves detached, binding partially detached, some leaves mended ; some smearing of text.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On title-page occurs a charm in verse and some writing. On the page after the colophon is a table of genealogy; last folio has charms one of which is dated 1249 (1833/34) and one attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
Origin: According to colophon begun 1 Muḥarram 1155 and completed 1 Safar 1157 by the author Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Faḍl al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṭabarī al-Malikī, Imam of the Maqam Abraham (fol. 269b-270a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title written on top edge barely legible, possibly: Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Two obscured seal impressions (fol. 1a). After the colophon is an autograph of an owner, Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad Amrīḥi al-Sharīf al-Zalabān. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Stamps (Provenance)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

holographs (autographs)

Poetry

To 622

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic poetry

New Jersey--Princeton

Muʻallaqāt

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963566903506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15584fda-7961-4891-a876-b2558dd37953/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University