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كتاب تحفة الانام في فضائل الشام / تأليف الشيخ الامام البحر الهمام جلال الدين محمد البصروي.
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-anām fī faḍāʼil al-Shām / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-baḥr al-humām Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Buṣrawī.
1617
Elegant copy written by the great-grand-son of the author (see colophon, fol. 123b) of a description of the beauties of Damascus, together with its history, divided into six sections. For a more detailed description, see Hitti, P. Garrett coll.
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- Publisher
- Damascus, [1617]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 265H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Elegant copy written by the great-grand-son of the author (see colophon, fol. 123b) of a description of the beauties of Damascus, together with its history, divided into six sections. For a more detailed description, see Hitti, P. Garrett coll.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب تحفة الانام في فضائل الشام / تأليف الشيخ الامام البحر الهمام جلال الدين محمد البصروي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Tuḥfat al-anām fī faḍāʼil al-Shām / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-baḥr al-humām Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Buṣrawī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 265H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv692th437
- Publisher
- Damascus, [1617]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1617
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 124 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (137 x 84) mm. bound to 210 x 154 mm.
- Provenance
- Seal impression on fol. 1b. Two ownership statements on fol. 2a, one signed by al-Sayyid [?] al-ʻĀbidīn qāḍī bi-Dimashq al-Shām. Ownership statements by the son of the copyist dated 1047 H. [1637 or 8] on fol. 123b.
- Seal on fol. 1b. Two ownership statements on fol. 2a, one in the name of ...? qāḍī bi-Dimashq al-Shām. Ownership statements by the son of the copyist dated 1047 H. [1637 or 8] on fol. 123b. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 753
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 361/7
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 489/7
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 123 + i ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red
- Description: Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated
- Decoration: Painted title page in red and green (fol. 2a).
- Origin: Copied from an autograph by Aḥmad ibn Amīn? al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, the author of this book, ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Buṣrawī al-Ḥanafī in Damascus on 26 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1026 (colophon, fol. 123b).
- Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية الاخر بلا نهاية ... وبعد فهذه اوراق اذكر فيها ان شاء الله تعالى ما تيسر الاطلاع عليه وسهل الوصول اليه.
- Explicit: ريح من اليمن فتقبض ارواح المومنين وتقوم الساعة على شرار الخلق والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم وهو حسبى وكفى تم الكتاب.
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in red leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind-stamped mandorla and an outer frame made of blind-tooled fillets. Rebacked.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 256
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/b322f55f-cfcc-4bf5-837b-c823e1112474/manifest