Item Summary

Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh), incomplete at the beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
الطراز المنقوش في محاسن الحبوش
Transliterated Title
al-Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 360Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8910jt63c
Publisher
[between 17--? and 18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 63, i leaves : paper ; 193 x 135 (133 x 78) mm. bound to 199 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4461
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 385/2
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 519/2
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, in red ink).
17 lines per page. Verses of poetry in two columns. Written in medium small naskh, in black ink with some use of red for headings and punctuation. European glazed paper with watermark. The original first leaf is missing. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, inscription in Arabic script : "Shīn 121", repeated on a label pasted on the upper cover.
Incipit: الاحرار وخلاصة الابرار الذي ظلل بالغمامة واذّن بين يديه بلال ابن حمامه وجاهد فى الله حق الجهادة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الىالله الصمد ابو المعالى علاى الدين محمد ... البخارى المكّي الخطيب بالمديمة المنورة سابقا ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقة اللطيفة
Explicit: و تيمر مهجتي لكن بشرط وكان الشرط اخره اللامه تمت
Binding Note
European binding with leather spine and upper and lower covers made of cloth over pasteboards with a central gold-stamped decoration and blind-stamped corner pieces.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—1258-1800
Ethiopians—Early works to 1800
National characteristics, Ethiopian—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800
Islam—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
134

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9be14f11-a4e8-4bd2-ab89-46eeeb126cb0/manifest