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كتاب الفلك الداير على المثل الساير / للشيخ ابي المعالي القاسم بن هبة الله بن محمد بن محمد المعروف بابن ابي الحديد.
Kitāb al-Falak al-dāyir ʻalá al-Mathal al-sāyir / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Maʻālī al-Qāsim ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd.
1600-1755
A treatise refuting the large and famous work on the art of literary composition in prose and verse entitled al-Mathal al-sāʼir fī ādāb al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī.
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Metadata
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433H
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433Haq
- Publisher
- [before 1755]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Hibat Allāh, 1191-1257 or 1258
- ابن ابي الحديد، عبد الحميد بن هبة الله، 1191-1257 or 1258
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Ibn al-Athīr, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad 1163-1239—Mathal al-sāʾir fī adab al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir
- Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- headpieces (layout features)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Blind tooled bindings
- Autographs
- Sprinkled papers
- Watermarks
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Item Summary
A treatise refuting the large and famous work on the art of literary composition in prose and verse entitled al-Mathal al-sāʼir fī ādāb al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الفلك الداير على المثل الساير / للشيخ ابي المعالي القاسم بن هبة الله بن محمد بن محمد المعروف بابن ابي الحديد.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Falak al-dāyir ʻalá al-Mathal al-sāyir / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Maʻālī al-Qāsim ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433H
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 433Haq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731g68z
- Publisher
- [before 1755]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1755
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 105 leaves : paper ; 256 x 179 (175 x 110) mm bound to 257 x 184 mm.
- Provenance
- Signatures: ʻAlī al-Ẓāhir dated 1169, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, other obscured names (fol. 1a) Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 551.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), III, p. 66.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 464, V, p. 373.
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 318.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 105 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: cow's head with flower) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, black and red incorporating the title (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 1b-2a). Headings in gold on first 10 folios.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي فاوت بين عقول البشر واخلاقهم كما فاوت بين اجالهم ... وبعد فقد وفقت علي كتاب نصر الله بن محمد الموصلي المعروف بابن اثير الجزيره المسمي كتاب المثل الساير في ادب الكتال والشاعر ...
- Colophon: تم الکتاب ولله الحمد والمنة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبي الامي وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. In slipcover of red leather and red marbled paper (189 x 263 mm) with title label. Slipcover in poor condition.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Ibn al-Athīr, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad 1163-1239—Mathal al-sāʾir fī adab al-kātib wa-al-shāʻir
- Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- headpieces (layout features)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Blind tooled bindings
- Autographs
- Sprinkled papers
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 232
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c1266c5-c0a9-4576-b9b1-f6d60e70a8c6/manifest