Item Summary

A collection of poems and letters by Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Mālikī al-Anṣārī compiled by the authorʼs son.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تاج المجاميع / للعلامة تاج الدين بن احمد المالكي الانصاري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tāj al-majāmīʻ / lil-ʻAllāmah Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Mālikī al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 159H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1n79hd95c
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1690
Extent
(1), 164 leaves : paper ; 204 x 148 (165 x 90) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Obliterated ownership signature of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qaṭ[īfī?] (fol. 5a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3420.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 220.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 164 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; 16 quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown, star topped by a crescent) ; MS is rare ; MS in good condition but folios are loose and binding is detached.
Layout: 24-26 lines per page.
Marginal notes. Seal of Solomon on title page (fol. 5a). On three folios before title page are a number of verses of poetry and the beginning of a letter. On the two folios after the colophon are two verses of poetry by the author, a will and another note.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 22 Jumādá I 1101 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Ḥusaynī[?] (fol. 163a).
Title from title page (fol. 5a).
Colophon: قد وافق الفراغ من نساخته يوم السبت الثاني والعشرين من شهر جمادى الاولى بقلم افقر العباد اليه تعالى الغني عمن سواه عبده الفقير الحقير عبدالرحمن بن السيد عبد الغني الحسيني الحنفي غفر الله له
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم. وبعد فيقول جامع هذا المجموع.
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Flap lined with block-stamped paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
342

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c632f80e-97b0-42ce-81a3-46d702eff2d8/manifest