Item Summary

A commentary on the authorʼs own metrical treatise on the excellences of the month of Ramaḍān, entitled al-Yāqūt fī faḍāʼil Ramaḍān.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القوت بشرح الياقوت في فضل شهر رمضان / للشيخ احمد بن محمد السحيمي القلعاوي الازهري الحسني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qūt bi-sharḥ al-Yāqūt fī faḍl shahr Ramaḍān / lil-Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Suḥaymī al-Qalʻāwī al-Azʹharī al-Ḥasanī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 950H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch702qj88s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1818
Extent
110 leaves : paper ; 226 x 166 (175 x 106) mm bound to 222 x 174 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1860.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 177.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 110 ; 11 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with a face-in-the-moon, three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "FT") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 25 Jumādá al-Awwal 1233 by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-ʻArīf al-Mālikī (fol. 110a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى مولاه الغني احمد بن محمد السحيمي القلعاوي الازهري الحسني هذا شرح على مقدمتي الياقوت فيما يتعلق برمضان ...
Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة يوم الخميس المبارك 25 شهر جمادى الاول سنة ثمانية وثلاثين ومايتين والف من هجرة من له المجد والشرف على يد المرتجي مغفرة رب العالمين علي ابن حسن العريف المالکي مذهبا غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه واخوانه واقاربه وجميع المسليمن امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-stamped design. Orange paper pastedowns. In case of the same design (230 x 175 mm.) Not sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

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/a37fe592-28f8-4489-8726-c5eb24a2722c/manifest