Item Summary

Collection of two compilations of verses of poetry.

Descriptive Information

Title
المخطار من روض الازهار للشيخ صلاح الدين الكتبي ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Mukhṭār min Rawḍ al-azʹhār lil-shaykh Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kutubī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 935Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vm40xr64q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1371-1452
Extent
84 leaves: paper ; 163 x 125 (120-125 x 93-98) mm bound to 168 x 136 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements and reading statements on fol. 1a-3a, 60a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, 32/11; SII, 29/13.
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4245, 4247
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-58b: al-Mukhṭār min Rawḍ al-azhār lil-shaykh Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kutubī. Anonymous selection from Rawḍat al-azhār wa-ḥadīqat al-ashʻār. The ms. begins without any introduction with a poem by Ṣurr-Durr.
2. fol. 60a-84a: Kitāb al-Ḥuṣn al-ṣarīḥ fī miʼat malīḥ / [Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī]. Collection of poems.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
On fol. 1a-3a: Short verses of poetry; title (al-Mukhṭār); ownership statements; reading statements. On fol. 59a-b: Inscriptions and short texts. On fol. 60a: Title page (al-Ḥuṣn al-ṣarīḥ); ownership statements. On fol. 83b-84a: Fihrist. On fol. 84b: Several inscriptions. Fol. 1-2 are later fly-leaves (glazed (European?) paper). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16-17 lines per page.
Description: Written in black ink with use of red for headings and decoration. Light cream glazed paper with no chain or laid lines clearly visible. Some darker leaves (see fol. 9).
Origin: [ al-Mukhtār min Rawḍ al-azhār] Copied in Shaʻbān 856 ("thāmin shuhūr", colophon, fol. 58b) -- [Kitāb al-Ḥusn al-ṣarīḥ] Copied by Ḥamīd ibn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad al-Khwārizmī in Malaṭyah in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 773 (colophon, fol. 83a).
Incipit: [المختار من روض الازهار] علي بن الحسين المعروف بصرّدُرّ قد بان اذرك والخليطُ مودّع وهوى النفوس مع الهوادج يرفع -- [كتاب الحسن الصريح] بسم ... اما بعد حمد الله تعالى على ما وهب ومنح من الفكر الذي انتحى بدقة المعانى
Explicit: [المختار من روض الازهار] واقول يا اخت الغزال الملاحة فتقول لا عاش الغزال ولا بقي -- [كتاب الحسن الصريح] هذا من الوالدان في حسنه فهو و حمل النّار من اين

Physical Characteristics

File Count
172

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/da9741ad-e357-4a8c-a63e-ac04d4c1c3bc/manifest