Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب نظم الدرر السنية في السير الزكية / نظم الفقير الى الله تعالى عبد الرحيم بن الحسين بالمدينة الشريفة

Transliterated Title

Kitāb Naẓm al-durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah / naẓm al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn bi-al-Madīnah al-sharīfah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3520Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr76f3451

Publisher

[before 1389]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1389

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 40 leaves : paper ; 213 x 158 (143 x 98) mm. bound to 215 x 167 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 4518

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 65 (7/2)

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 70/2

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 1a).

13 to 16 lines per page. Written in large casual naskh in thick black ink with use of red for decorations and re-inking. Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines (grouped by two and three) visible. Fol. 18-19 are later replacements (light cream glazed paper with chain and laid lines visible). Some words are crossed out with a later version in the margin (see fol. 13a). On fol. (i)a: Ownership statements with seals; waqf mention; inscriptions. On fol. 1a: Title; long note (almost illegible); ownership statements; waqf. Several reading statements in the margin of fol. 4a, 6a, etc. On fol. 37b-40b: Several audition certificates (samāʻ) by the author's hand, the last dated 12 Dhū al-Ḥujjah 791 H. [1389]. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Autograph, al-Madīnah (colophon, fol. 37b).

Incipit: بسم ... يقول راجى من اليه المهرب عبد الرحيم بن حسين المذنب احمد ربّى باتم الحمد وللصلوة والسلام اهدى

Explicit: وساير الاصحاب والولىّ

Binding Note

Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly richly blind- and gold-tooled with a central roundel with geometrical motifs and an elaborate outer frame. The envelope flap has a portion of the same frame, with a roundel on its pointe. Embossed leather doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject

Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800

Arabic poetry—14th century

Islamic poetry, Arabic—14th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

88

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a3985e4a-8591-4c2e-a1fb-af53439b52bf/manifest

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