Item Summary

A commentary on the metrical treatise of prosody, known as al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah, or al-Rāmizah by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn al-Khazrajī. With diagrams. Followed by a work on prosody by al-Tabrīzī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا مجموع في علم العروض فيه من الشروح والرسايل.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ fīhi min al-shurūḥ wa-al-rasāyil.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 399H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9019sc94b
Publisher
[between 1691 and 1781]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1691-1781
Format
Manuscript
Extent
54 leaves : paper ; 184 x 136 (150 x 85-105) mm. bound to 182 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Reading certificate for ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Barr Alwānī from his teacher Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Bujīr[?] dated 1 Jumādá I 1195.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 504.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 203, 536.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 195.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7122/3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-44a: Fatḥ Rabb al-barīyah bi-sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah. Text in red and commentary in black.
3. fol. 44b: [prayer instructions]
4. fol. 45a-54a: [al-Buḥūr wa-al-qawāfī] / Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī al-Khaṭīb al-Tabrīzī. On prosody, part of his work al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī.
5. fol. 54b: [reading certificate]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Inscriptions on lower pastedown. Of the nine titles listed in the table of contents, only the first two are present. The remainder of the titles are crossed out.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 54 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (hand; three crescents; anchor) ; MS in fair condition. Folios 11-30 and part of 31 by different hand. Edges trimmed except in a few cases where, in order to preserve marginal notes, they were folded.
Origin: [Fatḥ Rabb] According to colophon copied Monday 23 Shaʻbān 1102[?] by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Yusr al-Aḥmadī al-Qabbānī (fol. 44a).
Incipit: [فتح] بسم الله ... قال سيدنا ومولانا شيخ مشايخ الاسلام -- [البهور] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام ابو زكريا يحيى ابن على الخطيب التبريزي ... اقول ان القوافى تسع
Colophon: [فتح] تم الشرح المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث عشرين شهر شعبان سنة 100102 [1102] کتبه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابو الحسن ابن الشيخ ابو [ابي] اليسر الاحمدي القباني غفر الله له ولمن قرأ في هذه الکتاب ودعا له
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Mended. Upper cover has marbled paper and yellow paper pastedown. Lower cover of dark brown leather covered with paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān active 12th century-13th century—Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Certificates
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
142

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ccddee2e-fb2a-43d3-8585-9cde02b91ab5/manifest