Item Summary

A commentary on Muʻallaqāt al-Sabʻ, being an edited version of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī [d. 1093 or 4].

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح المعلقات على التمام والكمال.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83m787n
Publisher
[1861]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1861
Format
Manuscript
Extent
119 leaves : paper ; 235 x 156 (150 x 85) mm bound to 243 x 175 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 35 (10).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Two inscriptions on fol. 1a: two verses of poetry, and an acquisition note to the effect that the copy was obtained from Egypt, in Ṣafar 1291 [1874].
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 119 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page; fol. 1-20 frame-ruled in pencil.
Description: Written in an informal medium small naskh in black ink; watermarks; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1 Rajab 1277 [1861] -- colophon (fol. 119a).
Explicit: كان شاهد على ان الحرب قد بلغت غاية.
Incipit: قال العبد المفتقر الي ربه المستغفر من ذنبه عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريم.
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muʻallaqāt—Criticism, Textual
Arabic poetry—To 622—Criticism, Textual
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
252

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/07fd933e-dae8-4259-bea2-90d20a72661f/manifest