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كتاب مشارق الانوار المضية في شرح الكواكب الدرية / تأليف شهاب الدين احمد بن ابي بكر القسطلاني
Kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār al-muḍīyah fī sharḥ al-Kawākib al-durrīyah / taʼlīf Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī
1647
A commentary on the famous Burdah Ode of al-Būṣīrī in praise of the Prophet.
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- Publisher
- 6 Ṣafar 1057 [March 13, 1647]
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- Author
- Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
- قسطلاني، احمد بن محمد، 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
- Scribe
- Nūsī, Ṣāliḥ
- Related Name
- نوسي، صالح
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 46H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A commentary on the famous Burdah Ode of al-Būṣīrī in praise of the Prophet.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب مشارق الانوار المضية في شرح الكواكب الدرية / تأليف شهاب الدين احمد بن ابي بكر القسطلاني
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār al-muḍīyah fī sharḥ al-Kawākib al-durrīyah / taʼlīf Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 46H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vm40z216j
- Publisher
- 6 Ṣafar 1057 [March 13, 1647]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1647
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 62 leaves : paper ; 206 x 146 (155 x 95) mm. bound to 212 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Ownership signature: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ath (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7793.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 68.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 62 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a quotation from Sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn (traditions) by al-Shabrākhīti (1106 H) quoting the Prophet on the value of imparting one's knowledge to others.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 6 Ṣafar 1057 by Ṣāliḥ al-Nūsī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 62b).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة يوم الاربعاء سادس صفرالخير سنة سبع وخمسين بعد تمام الالف على يد کاتبه صالح النوسي الشافعي الازهري عفا الله تعالى عنه وعن والديه ولمن قرأ فيه ودعا لهم بالمغفرة والحمد لله رب العالمين تم
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي شرح بمدح نبينا محمد
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 138
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/35b9ce4d-c6dd-4228-8a74-1dab8d9cb6eb/manifest