Item Summary

A treatise on the seven forms of poetry, namely: (1) al-shiʻr, (2) al-tawshīḥ, (3) al-dūbayt, (4) al-zajal, (5) kān wa-kān, (6) al-qawmah and (7) al-mawālī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب العقيدة الدرويشية في تحرير السبعة فنون الادبية / تأليف احمد الدرويش البرلسي المالكي الاحمدي
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-ʻAqīdah al-Darwīshīyah fī taḥrīr al-sabʻah funūn al-adabīyah / taʼlīf Aḥmad al-Darwīsh al-Barallusī al-Mālikī al-Aḥmadī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 409H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczc77t1603
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1875
Extent
57 leaves : paper ; 257 x 175 (205 x 108) mm. bound to 255 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 513.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 284.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 376¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 57 + i ; catchwords ; every tenth folio foliated using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple headpiece consisting of lines of varying thickness in red ink.
Origin: According to colophon copied 15 Muḥarram 1292 by Muḥammad Rashwān ibn Muḥammad Amīn (fol. 57b).
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الکريم الوهاب الحليم التواب
Colophon: قد تم نقل هذه الرسالة اللطيفة العديمة المثال المحتوية على کل ما يحتاج اليه المبتدي والمنتهي في السبعة الفنون الادبية على يد احوج الخلق الى الله محمد رشوان ابن محمد امين في 15 محرم سنة 1292 اللهم اغفر له ولوالديه وللمسلمين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
127

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb3d4f7e-2d4e-4b63-b221-5ca70e5ae087/manifest