Item Summary

A commentary on the famous Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية مقامات الحريري / للشيخ ابو البقا العكبري.
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyat Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī / lil-Shaykh Abū al-Baqā al-ʻUkbarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 133H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752s37n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1572
Extent
67 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (140 x 90) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3939¹.
Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 562.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 61.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 198.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 67 + iii (paginated 1-138 rather than foliated) ; catchwords ; modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circular design) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Name of each ʻʻassemblyʼʼ in the margin opposite. On title page is a note explaining words of a prayer.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 979 (fol. 133a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله تعالى في يوم الاثنين المبارك الخامس عشر من شهر ذي الحجة الحرام ختام شهور سنة تسع وسبعين وتسعماية والحمد لله وصلواته. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وازواجه وسلم تسليما دائما الى يوم الدين وغفر لکاتبه ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاحبايه [لاحبائه] ولسائر المسلمين اجمعين. آمين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة. الحمد لله على فضله العميم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and black and red marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Pastedowns and flyleaves gold-sprinkled red paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
155

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/fe69571d-58fd-4428-b4fb-3b104ed38162/manifest