Item Summary

A commentary on al-Tāʼīyah, an ode rhyming in tāʼ in praise of the Prophet by Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب كنز الذخائر وهدية المسافر الى النور السافر شرح التائية السبكية / تأليف جلال الدين محمد علي المحلي السمنودي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Kanz al-dhakhāʼir wa-hadīyat al-musāfir ilá al-nūr al-sāfir sharḥ al-Tāʼīyah al-Subkīyah / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Maḥallī al-Samannūdī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 991H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5x21ts98n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
171 leaves : paper ; 214 x 155 (155 x 95) mm bound to 214 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 104.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 267.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. On the title page are several verses of poetry by Ḥusayn al-Maḥallī. On back of the last page is a tradition. The last eleven folios were supplied by a later hand (fol. 161-171).
Collation: ii + 171 + vii ; quires partially signed: 1-15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله ذي البرالغامر والفضل الوافر ... اما بعد فقد سألني جماعة من الاخوان ... في شرح القصيدة التائية المشهورة بالسبکية
Colophon: تمت ولله الحمد
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
368

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

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