Item Summary

An ode with a commentary in praise of the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
القصيدة الشقراطسية.
Transliterated Title
al-Qaṣīdah al-Shuqrāṭisīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2v23w6307
Publisher
675? or 765? [1277? or 1364?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1277-1364
Format
Manuscript
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 182 x 137 (125 x 90) mm bound to 192 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 30.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 540.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later paper) + 10 + ii (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, mended. Rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 6 Ramaḍān 765? by ʻUthmān al-Mālikī [Hitti records the date as 765?] (fol. 10a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. حکى الشيخ العالم الزاهد ابوعبد الله القرطبي المشهور ... ان انساناً فاخوريا ببلاد القيروان ... الحمد لله منا باعث الرسل * هدى باحمد منا احمد السبل * خيرالبرية من بدو ومن حضر * واکرم الخلق من حاف ومنتعل
Colophon: ... نجزت بعون الله وتوفيقه والحمد لله وحده وصلاته وسلامه على من لا نبيّ بعده
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and purple spotted paper. Marbled paper pastedows and flyleaves. Gold-tooled lines on spine. French binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2464f840-bc35-4916-b8e3-7c11d66e4938/manifest