Item Summary

Three printed texts and one manuscript.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب هز القحوف في شرح قصيد أبي شادوف ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf fī sharḥ Qaṣīd Abī Shādūf ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 558
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1z40m752n
Publisher
Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1158-Shaʻbān 1251 [1745-1835]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1745-1835
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 volume : paper ; 247 x 168 (187 x 104) mm bound to 244 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻUthmān [ibn] Muṣṭafá Aghā? ibn al-Sammān dated Muḥarram 1214; Muḥammad Asʻād dated 1275 (fol. 1a).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. pages [1]-229: Hādhā Kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf fī sharḥ Qaṣīd Abī Shādūf / lil-ʻAllāmah Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jawād ibn Khiḍr al-Shirbīnī. Printed text.
2. pages [1]-12, [1]-164: Hādhā Mukhtaṣar Tadhkirat al-Imām al-Suwaydī fī al-ṭibb / lil-Quṭb al-Ṣamadānī al-Imām al-Shaʻrānī. Printed text.
3. pages [1]-[4], 1-109: Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Printed text.
4. fol. 1a-76a: al-Rawḍ al-nāfiḥ fīmā warada ʻalá al-fatḥ min al-madāyiḥ / Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-al-Sammān. Concerns eulogistic poetry.
Notes
Composite codex.
Title from title page of first published work.
Print and manuscript sections separated by leaf of blue paper. Title page of first printed work annotated to list full contents of volume. Stamps.
Collation: Paper ; pages 229, 12, 164, 109, fol. 76 + ii ; some quires signed ; catchwords ; manuscript has modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-25 lines per page in one or two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
Description of manuscript: Rubricated ; watermarks (three hats, roman-alphabet letters "CS"?) ; MS in very good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in red and gold (fol. 1b). Opening spread of manuscripts frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a). Multi-colored endbands.
Origin: [Hādhā Kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf] Published Shawwāl 1274 -- [Hādhā Mukhtaṣar Tadhkirat] Published Dār al-Ṭibāʻah al-Mīrīyah al-Miṣrīyah, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1275 --[Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah] Published Maktab al-Ṭūbjīh, Shaʻbān 1251 -- [al-Rawḍ al-nāfiḥ] According to the colophon copy completed Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1158 (fol. 76a)
Incipit of manuscript: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا من تفرد فى وحد انيته وعزته واحاط بلك شيء علما بعظمته ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير راجى لطف ذى الامتنان محمد سعيد بن محمد بن احمد السمان لما جاد الزمن الممطل ...
Colophon of manuscript: تم وكلم بعون الله تعالى فى ختام جمادى الاخره سنة ثمان وحمسين ومائة والف
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry—History and criticism—Early works to 1800
Egypt—Rural conditions—Early works to 1800
Social problems in literature—Early works to 1800
Materia medica—Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Elegiac poetry, Arabic—History and criticism—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
680

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a3c51888-7949-4df5-9106-2d1d8b9feeae/manifest