Item Summary

First volume of an elegant copy in seven volumes (see fol. 1a) of an encyclopedia on the art of writing and composition, comprising an introduction, 10 parts (maqālāt), and a conclusion (see description of contents in preamble, fol. 3b-11a). This volume comprises the text up to the end of Maqālah 1. Bāb 2, Faṣl 1 (see colophon, fol. 355b). It is written by Rizq Allāh ibn Niʻmat Allāh Ḥassūn (1825-1880).

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من صبح الاعشى في كتابة الانشاء / تأليف الشيخ الامام العلامة جامع اشتات الفنون ابي العباس احمد القلقشندي الشافعي رحمه الله
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Ṣubḥ al-aʻshá fī kitābat al-inshāʼ / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah jāmiʻ ashtāt al-funūn Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Qalqashandī al-Shāfiʻī raḥimahu Allāh.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218Bq
Identifier
ark:/88435/0v838791c
Publisher
London, [1874]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1874
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 356, ii leaves: paper ; 318 x 198 (205 x 120) mm. bound to 320 x 208 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 209
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; larger script for headings. Sheets of paper decorated with a wide arabesque border surrounding a large gilt frame defining the undecorated writing surface.
According to colophon, copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 5 Aylūl [Sept. 5] 1874 by Rizq Allāh ibn Niʻmat Allāh Ḥassūn al-Ḥalabī mawladan al-Lundunī hijratan (fol. 355b).
Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل المرء باصغريه قلبه ولسانه والمتكلم باجمليه فصاحته وبيانه راقم حقايق المعانى باقلام الالهام على صفحات الافكار ... وبعد فلما كانت الكتابة من اشرف الصنايع وارفعها واربح البضائع وافضل المآثر واعلاها
Explicit: على مقادير قطع الورق عند اهل التوقيع واهل الديونة عند ذكر ورق كل فن وما يناسبه من القطع ان شآء الله تعالى
Binding Note
Western style brown leather binding. "The Science of Epistolary Correspondence I" in Roman script engraved in gold between bands on spine. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Penmanship, Arabic—14th century
Writing, Arabic—14th century
Arabic prose literature
Codicology
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
724

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/80947bed-781f-418e-8ea3-a00cb0912631/manifest