Item Summary

A collection of original poems of eulogy of the Prophet arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Descriptive Information

Title
الدر المنظم في مدح الحبيب الاعظم.
Transliterated Title
al-Durr al-munaẓẓam fī madḥ al-ḥabīb al-aʻẓam.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 67H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fn107751g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1668
Extent
80 leaves : paper ; 201 x 140 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 202 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Obliterated autograph of an owner (fol. (1)a. On the first folio is the autograph of an owner, ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Mahdī dated 1227. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 272.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 111.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2321.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; separation between hemistitches ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Full vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses; interlinear notes. On the folio before the first is a title for the MS, added by a different hand. On two folios after the colophon are a poem by Miṣbāḥ al-Sakandari and a prayer by Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1079 by Manṣūr al-Anbābī (fol. 77b).
Title from colophon (fol. 77b).
Colophon: وقد تم الديوان المسمى بالدر المنظم في مدح الحبيب الاعظم في غاية شهر المحرم الحرام افتتاح عام تسعة وسبعين والف على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى رحمة الکريم الجواد الفقير منصور الانبابي بلدا الشافعي مذهبا غفرا الله له ذنوبه وستر في الدارين عيوبه ولطف به وبجميع المسلمين امين امين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة. قال فقير رحمة ربه
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. The flap is missing. Blind stamped with central mandorla and tooled edging. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
168

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/85e7c999-0209-44c2-a500-ac19e4b7220e/manifest