Item Summary

A versification of al-Faṣīḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه حلية الفصيح في نظم ما قد جاء في الفصيح لثعلب / محمد بن احمد بن جابر بن علي الهواري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Ḥ̣ilyat al-faṣīḥ fī naẓm mā qad jāʼa fī al-Faṣīḥ li-Thaʻlab / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jābir ibn ʻAlī al-Hawwārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 291H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbv73c969z
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1819
Extent
95, (1) leaves : paper ; 182 x 124 (150 x 80) mm bound to 182 x 129 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 250.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 112, IV pp. 445/6.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4452⁶.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 13.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4452⁶.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 112, IV pp. 445/6.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. On the top edge is the title Alfīyah fī al-afʻāl. In the original colophon the author states that he completed his work in Bīrah, 747 [1346].
Collation: Paper ; fol. 95 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Vowel signs ; watermarks ; MS in very good condition, first few folios slightly stained and darkened.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 6 Jumādá I 1234 by Ḥasan al-Burdī (fol. 45b).
Incipit: رب يسر يا کريم بجاه نبيك الکريم. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله على ما سدده
Colophon: تم على يد افقر العباد الى الله الصمد المعترف بالتقصير حسن البردي في يوم الاربعاء المبارك لستة خلون من جماد اول سنه 1234 اربعة وثلاثون وما يتان والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف غفر الله له ذنوبه وستر في الدارين عيوبه ومشايخه ووالديه والمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather blue paper. Blind-tooled edging.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
103

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/a827803f-3a60-4518-afeb-ea69eb447412/manifest