Item Summary

Autograph copy of a short biography of the Prophet commemorating his birth.

Descriptive Information

Title
الزهر الفايق في مولد اشرف الخلايق / للعلامة احمد السحيمي الازهري الحسني.
Transliterated Title
al-Zahr al-fāyiq fī mawlid ashraf al-khalāyiq / lil-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Suḥaymī al-Azʹharī al-Ḥasanī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 237H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3t9461955
Publisher
12 Rabīʻ I 1149 [July 21, 1736?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1736
Format
Manuscript
Extent
21 leaves : paper ; 231 x 166 (185 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Fol. 1a has the signature of Muḥammad al-Basūmī al-Ḥanafī.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 660.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page occur a statement of the price of the MS and a tradition about the Prophet.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 12 Rabīʻ I 1149 by the author (fol. 21a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ منه يوم الجمعة ثاني عشر ربيع الاول سنة تسع واربعين وماة [مائة] والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم تم
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي من علينا بايجاد المصطفى
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
46

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b199adc1-16e3-424d-8cdc-5de34a6beca8/manifest