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الدر المنتظم بالشعر الملتزم في مدح النبي / عبد الله بن عبد الله الادكاوي.
al-Durr al-muntaẓam bi-al-shiʻr al-multazam fī madḥ al-Nabī / ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Udkāwī.
1747
Autograph copy of two collections of original poems in eulogy of the Prophet arranged according to the letters of the alphabet not contained in the poems.
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- Author
- Udkāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1692 or 1693-1770 or 1771
- ادكاوي، عبد الله بن عبد الله، 1692 or 1693-1770 or 1771
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 89H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Autograph copy of two collections of original poems in eulogy of the Prophet arranged according to the letters of the alphabet not contained in the poems.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الدر المنتظم بالشعر الملتزم في مدح النبي / عبد الله بن عبد الله الادكاوي.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Durr al-muntaẓam bi-al-shiʻr al-multazam fī madḥ al-Nabī / ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Udkāwī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 89H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/br86bd18m
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1747
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 63, (1) leaves : paper ; 211 x 146 (158 x 96) mm. bound to 211 x 147 mm.
- Provenance
- On title page is the obscured autograph of Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad [al-Saqqāf]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 283.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3444.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 133.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 63 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Decoration: illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b with gold, blue and red ; ruled marginal lines in gold on first folio and in red and blue throughout ; important verses are in red.
- Description: Vowel signs ; headings in red ; MS in fair condition, some loose folios and partially detached binding.
- Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled with separation between hemistitches.
- Ms. codex.
- On fol. 63b is a reference to another book by the same author. Inside upper cover has some calculations.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1160 by the author in Cairo.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من رقم هذا الديوان المبارك يوم الجمعة الانور ثامن ذي القعدة الحرام من سنة ستين ومائة والف على يد ناظمه الفقير عبد الله بن عبدالله المؤذن الادکاوي نزيل القاهرة. ختم بها وصلى الله تعالى على خير خلقة الله سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي اخرج من بحار افکار اولي الالباب
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold tooled line edging.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 138
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/d1ab3c3c-64d2-420e-b563-87d00414cbdc/manifest