Item Summary

A treatise on the composition of the zajal (iambic poems) and mawāliyā (ballads), with examples.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نبذة / عبد الوهاب البنواني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nubdhah / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Banawānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 408H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgf06gd13q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1605
Extent
(1), 20, (1) leaves : paper ; 200 x 147 (155 x 105) mm. bound to 199 x 153 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 510.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7170/1.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4454.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Evidently last few lines are by a different hand. Fol. 20b has statement that it was reviewed by Saʻīd ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn al-? in 1240 [1824/5].
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 20 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks? ; MS in fair condition but several folios are mended.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 2 Muḥarram 1014 by Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hānī (fol. 20a).
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين
Colophon: تمت ... المبارکة والحمد لله وحده امين امين امين تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red, blue, and black marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
55

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3b495ede-117a-4391-ae6b-d92a7d53ff0a/manifest