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شرح الصدر بشرح ارجوزة استنزال النصر بالتوسل باهل بدر.
Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-sharḥ urjūzat Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr.
1781
Item Summary
The text of, and the commentary on Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr, an ode containing the names of all those who took part on the side of the Prophet, in the Battle of Badr. The ode was occasioned by the appeal, circulated by Shaykh al-Islām, for special prayers for the Turkish army in its struggle against the Persian Nādir Shāh and was composed in 1158/1745.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- شرح الصدر بشرح ارجوزة استنزال النصر بالتوسل باهل بدر.
- Transliterated Title
- Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-sharḥ urjūzat Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1135H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcq524k0730
- Publisher
- 4 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1195 [March 30, 1781]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1781
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 141 leaves : paper ; 215 x 137 (155 x 75) mm. bound to 213 x 138 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-Shaybī, fātiḥ Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1969.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from text (fol. 3a).
- A few marginal notes. Inscriptions on folio 141a.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 141 ; catchwords ; watermarks (coat-of-arms; grapes?) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 4 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1195. Scribe's name has been erased (fol. 140b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى خص نبينا محمد اصلى الله عليه وسلم بخصائص اعلى له قدرا وميزه بكتاب احكمت اياته وشرح له به صدرا ...
- Colophon: وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة علي يد افقر العباد الى الله تعالى [...] في يوم الخميس المبارك رابع شهر ربيع الثانى الذى هو من شهور سنة خمس وتسعين ومائه والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها الفضل الصلاة والسلم
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled cross-hatch marks across the entire cover with a decorative edging.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Manīnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1678 or 1679-1758 or 1759—Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr
- Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Early works to 1800
- Badr, Battle of, Badr Ḥunayn, Saudi Arabia, 624—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Blind tooled bindings
- Autographs
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 293
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d227ac45-75bd-46d2-abac-d67c530cdb5f/manifest




















