Item Summary

Commentary on al-Maqṣūrah by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Durayd, completed on 14 Ramaḍān 1004 [May 12, 1596] (see end of text).

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح مقصورة ابن دريد ابي بكر محمد بن الحسن / للشيخ عبد القادر الطبري المكي
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ Maqṣūrat Ibn Durayd Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 16H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz316qc66k
Publisher
[1677]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1677
Format
Manuscript
Extent
340 [i.e. 240] leaves : paper ; 200 x 143 (149 x 99) mm bound to 200 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 21
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 172 (25/I. Cmt. 11)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title appears in the pramble of the text as "al-Āyāt al-maqṣūrah ʻalá al-abyāt al-maqṣūrah" (fol. 2b, l. 13).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 340 [i.e. 240] + i ; 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire, fol. i) 2-23¹⁰ 24¹² ; numbering jumps from 199 to 300 ; quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in red ink ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue ; title page and opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black.
Description: Rubricated ; use of red for commented text, re-inking, and entries ; watermarks.
Inscription "1136" in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's catalog ; see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 16).
Origin: Copy completed on 15 Shaʻbān 1088 [Oct. 13, 1677] (colophon, fol. 240a).
Incipit: يا من منح الايمة الاعلام بمقصورات الخيام الممدودة الاطناب ويا من مدح امة الاسلام في المبتداء والختام ... وبعد فان ابهي ما تتجمل به اجياد الانام وازمي ما تتكمل به جياد الايام التحلى بالفضايل الوسيمة
Explicit: وتب علينا انك انت التواب الرحيم واغفر لنا وارحمنا انك انت [240أ] الرحيم وكان فراغ تاليف هذا الكتاب رابع عشرة رمضان المعظم قدره سنة اربعة بعد الالف احسن الله ختامها وادام نظامها وذلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا دايمًا ابدًا الى يوم الدين
Binding Note
Golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a central red-stamped mandorla outlined in gold, in a panel outlined by a gold painted fillet, with an outer border consisting of blind tooled fillets and a guilloche. Portion of the same frame on the envleope flap,with a smaller stamp on the pointe. Geometrical gold painting on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan 837 or 838-933—Maqṣūrah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
497

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/84074bba-e4d2-4bf2-ac8c-11f9b64b7eeb/manifest