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A biography of the Prophet generally known as al-Sīrah al-Ḥalabīyah, compiled, as stated in the preface, from two previous works,ʻUyūn al-athar fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāʼil wa-al-siyar by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās 661-734 [1263-1334] and Subul al-hudá wa-al-rashād fī sīrat khayr al-ʻibād, known as al-Sīrah al-Shāmīyah, by Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Shāmī, 942 [1536].
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- Publisher
- 1162 [1748 or 1749]
- People
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- Author
- Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1567 or 1568-1635
- نور الدين الحلبي، علي بن ابراهيم، 1567 or 1568-1635
- Related Name
- شارح الكنز، احمد بن محمد، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 266 + (1), (1) + 326 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper right hand corner ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; important words underlined in red ; watermarks (grapes) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
- Layout: 29 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses. After colophon in vol. 2 is a partially obscured inscription and a reading statement dated 25 Jumādá I 1193 [6/10/1779]. On a folio after the colophon is a statement about the Prophet, his virtues and his work.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied 1162 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Arīḥāwī, known as Shāriḥ al-Kanz (vol. 2, fol. 326a).
- Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اققر العباد واحوجهم الى عفو الکريم الجواد السيد احمد بن السيد محمد الادکاوي الشهير بشارح الکنز غفر الله لهما وللمسلمين وذلك في اليوم الرابع في شهر العاشر في العام الثاني والستين بعد الماية والالف والحمد لله وحده تم تم
- Incipit: بسم الله ... حمد لمن نضر وجوه اهل الحديث
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Quires not sewn. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Each volume in a case (217 x 170 mm. and 216 x 160 mm.) of red leather with a pull strap bearing title and number of volume.
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Item Summary
A biography of the Prophet generally known as al-Sīrah al-Ḥalabīyah, compiled, as stated in the preface, from two previous works,ʻUyūn al-athar fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāʼil wa-al-siyar by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās 661-734 [1263-1334] and Subul al-hudá wa-al-rashād fī sīrat khayr al-ʻibād, known as al-Sīrah al-Shāmīyah, by Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Shāmī, 942 [1536].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الجزؤ الاول من سيرة الحلبي
- Transliterated Title
- al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sīrat al-Ḥalabī
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dct435gq16d
- Publisher
- 1162 [1748 or 1749]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1749
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 2 volumes (266, 326) leaves : paper ; 206-211 x 142-155 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 205-214 x 155-163 mm.
- Provenance
- The title page of both volumes have the ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Sharīf Surūr, other obscured ownership signatures and a seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9604-11.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 14.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 458/9.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 655.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1274-6.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 266 + (1), (1) + 326 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper right hand corner ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; important words underlined in red ; watermarks (grapes) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
- Layout: 29 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses. After colophon in vol. 2 is a partially obscured inscription and a reading statement dated 25 Jumādá I 1193 [6/10/1779]. On a folio after the colophon is a statement about the Prophet, his virtues and his work.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied 1162 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Arīḥāwī, known as Shāriḥ al-Kanz (vol. 2, fol. 326a).
- Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اققر العباد واحوجهم الى عفو الکريم الجواد السيد احمد بن السيد محمد الادکاوي الشهير بشارح الکنز غفر الله لهما وللمسلمين وذلك في اليوم الرابع في شهر العاشر في العام الثاني والستين بعد الماية والالف والحمد لله وحده تم تم
- Incipit: بسم الله ... حمد لمن نضر وجوه اهل الحديث
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Quires not sewn. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Each volume in a case (217 x 170 mm. and 216 x 160 mm.) of red leather with a pull strap bearing title and number of volume.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/60806c66-4629-485e-b1a0-e69d3aadfc6e/manifest