Item Summary

The text of, and commentary on the epistle of Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ghālib ibn Zaydūn al-Makhzūmī al-Andulusī 394-463 [1003/4-1070], which he sent to the king Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Jahwar, who reigned 435-450 [1043/4-1058/9], begging to be released from prison.

Descriptive Information

Title
الرسالة الجدية لابن زيدون الاندلسي وشرحها / للصلاح الصفدي.
Transliterated Title
al-Risālah al-jiddīyah li-Ibn Zaydūn al-Andulusī wa-sharḥuhā / lil-ṣalāḥ al-Ṣafadī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 128H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pn89dh24r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1882
Extent
146 leaves : paper ; 246 x 161 (200 x 110) mm. bound to 245 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8608.
Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1240².
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3316/7.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 404.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 497, 543.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 190.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 146 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in excellent condition.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon occur two odes, one by Muḥammad Khalīfah and the other a eulogy of the first ode.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 18 Shaʻbān 1299 by Yaʻqūt ibn Aḥmad Mursī al-Mālikī (fol. 144 b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم بعون الله نقل هذا الشرح قبل الظهر من يوم الثلاثاء المبارك المتم ثمانية عشر شعبان المعظم سنة 1299 الف ومايتين وتسع وتسعين من هجرة سيد الاولين والاخرين صلى الله عليه وعلى اله واصحابه الائمة المهديين امين امين على يد الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير ياقوت بن الحاج احمد مرسي المالکي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واخوانه والمسلمين امين امين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون. الحمد لله الذى شرح صدورنا بالاسلام
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather (partially dyed violet). Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and tooled frame. Flap has stamped motif and tooled edging. Red marbled pastedown and endpaper. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
310

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5226264c-be8a-42a4-a4c7-235dce87ac3f/manifest