Item Summary

Elegant copy of the second volume of Tanbīh al-anām fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá khayr al-anām, a work of praise of the Prophet and on the excellences of prayer for him

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاني من تنبيه الانام في العلو على خير الانام.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Tanbīh al-anām fī al-ʻulūw ʻalá khayr al-anām.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1119Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0p096k97v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1739
Extent
179 leaves : paper ; 350 x 236 (275 x 173) mm bound to 353 x 254 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (f. 1a and 179b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1962.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from headpiece (fol. 1b).
A few marginal notes. Inserts. This copy was made for Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, the governor of Qajtūlah [Algeria]. Illegible title on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 179 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, red and black.
Description: Entries in gold, silver, red, green and indigo ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (sun or star with the roman-alphabet "H") ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red with marginal rosette (fol. 1b). Similar elaborate illuminated colophon in gold, red, blue and black (fol. 178a).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1152 by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sharīf al-Jazīrī (fol. 178a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد الذي ابرا شق خبيب بالمسح وامن خائقه يوم الفتح ...
Colophon: کمل کتاب تنبيه الانام في الصلاة على سيد الانام بحمد الله تعالى وحسن عونه على يد العبد الفقير يوسف ابن عبد الله الشريف الجزيري کان الله له بحرمة سيد المرسلين صلىّ الله عليه وعلى اله وسلم سنة 1152
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
384

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/742f7fc8-31db-4e86-8dc2-389480b1e710/manifest