Item Summary

Elegant copy (tanmīq) of a treatise on the excellence of Damascus, in eight parts. See detailed description in Hitti, P. Garrett coll.

Descriptive Information

Title
حدائق الانعام في فضائل دمشق الشام / تأليف الشيخ عبد الرحمن بن ابراهيم بن احمد الشهير بابن عبد الرزاق الخطيب في جامع السنانية بدمشق المحمية.
Transliterated Title
Ḥadāʼiq al-inʻām fī faḍāʼil Dimashq al-Shām / taʼlīf al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-khaṭīb fī Jāmiʻ al-Sinānīyah bi-Dimashq al-muḥammīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 268H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6395wj31m
Publisher
[1861]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1861
Extent
102 leaves : paper ; 160 x 112 (120 x 67) mm. bound to 162 x 120 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 757
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 409/13
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
Several inscriptions in verse on fol. 1a. Table of contents written by a later hand on fol. 2b. Fol. 98a-102b: Blank. Inscription on the upper cover in black ink using Western numerals: "815."
Collation: Paper ; fol. 120 ; ii (fly leaves with inscriptions, fol. 1 and 2 in the modern foliation) 1-10¹⁰ ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-10 ; foliation in magenta ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
Origin: Copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣāliḥ Āghā al-Shāhbandar on Sunday 25 Shawwāl 1277 (colophon, fol. 97b).
Incipit: حمداً لمن فجر ينابيع الحكم والاحكام كما فجر الارض ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر ... لما شرفنى هذه الجامع الشريف لادآء الصلاة اشرف الموالى.
Explicit: ما اتى السعد قائلا لك ارخ باح فى الشام معدن الاسرار وقد كان الفراغ من تاليفه فى غرة شهر ربيع الثانى سنة اربعين ومائة والف كما افاد ذلك ما بعد لفظ ارخ الواقع فى الختام وهو ... صلى الله عليه وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and fabric over cardboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Green and yellow central stamped mandorla on both covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
216

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d752b776-59be-40c0-b781-d99fc051e1f7/manifest