Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
مقامة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Maqāmah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4691Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b2774500n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1486-1547
Extent
167 leaves : paper ; 185 x 136 (122-138 x 81-92) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 493, 1765, 3582, 4339, 4446.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 363, no. XII; SI, 526.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 1077.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-4b: Maqāmah. Autograph copy.
2. fol. 5b-13a: Mukhtaṣar al-Iʻlām bi-tathlīth al-kalām. Anonymous abridgment of the work of Ibn Mālik.
3. fol. 14b-136b: Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm īlá maʻānī bismillāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm.
4. fol. 140b-153b: Majlis fī al-kalām ʻalá al-istiʻādhah.
5. fol. 154b-163a: Kāfī ūlī al-ʻuqūl fī al-ḥādith bi-masjid al-Rasūl. Manẓūmah about the fire in the mosque of the Prophet in Medina, 13 Ramaḍān 886.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
On fol. 1a is a seal impression of Aḥmad Jazzār Pasha (waqf, Madrasah Nūr-Aḥmadīyah in Acre), a smaller seal impression, list of contents, and a kabīkab (invocation against bookworms)
Layout: 15-21 lines per page.
Origin: [Maqāmah] Copied 891 -- [Mukhtaṣar al-Iʻlām] Copied Rajab 792 by Aḥmad ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī -- [al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm] Copied Shawwāl 954 by ʻAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī -- [Majlis fī al-kalām] Copied Shawwāl 954 by ʻAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī.
Incipit: [مقامة] اخبرنا من حدث وصدق وافصح اذ نطق قال سمرت لىلة حفت بالسرور -- [مختصر الاعلام] الحمد لله المسبح بصنوف اللغات ... اما بعد فانى تتبعت کتاب شىخنا -- [الصراط المستقيم] الحمد لله الفتاح العلىم ... وبعد فهذا در نظىم وکتاب کرىم ... ىشرح الفاظ بسم الله -- [مجلس في الكلام] الحمد لله ... هذا مجلس فى الکلام ... على الاستعاذة من وجوه الاول فى الاحکام الشرعىة -- [كافي اولي العقول] الحمد لله الذى لا ىسأل * عن فعله وما أراد ىفعل
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Spine repaired. In poor condition. Possibly a type II binding missing the flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
338

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb4b46f6-21da-40d3-a9f0-102ee8260d9f/manifest