Item Summary

Chronicle of the reign of the Druze Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Maʻnī II (d. 1045/1635), covering the years 1021-1033/1612-1623.

Descriptive Information

Title
تأريخ الامير فخر الدين المعني
Transliterated Title
Tārīkh al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn al-Maʻnī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 219B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sf268516s
Publisher
Dayr al-Qamar, [between 1800 and 1912]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1912
Format
Manuscript
Extent
134 leaves : paper ; 230 x 155 (167 x 107) mm. bound to 235 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 606
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 289/3
Khālidī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad. Lubnān fī ʻahd al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn al-Maʻnī al-Thānī / ed. A. Rustum and F. al-Bustānī. Bayrūt, 1936, p. يا-يب
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from rubric (fol. 1a).
The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 1a), and on a modern spine label.
Ms. codex.
20 to 24 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh using black ink with headings and significant words in red. Glazed European paper. Horizontal catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On fol. 1a, the first words of the lines are missing. These words are copied by a modern hand on the opposite endpaper. There are a few gaps in the text (see fol. 72a, 118b, 119b).
According to A. Rustum in his edition of this text, this manuscript has been copied and collated with another copy by ʻĪsā Ibrāhīm al-Maʻlūf in 1912.
Copied by Fransīs ibn Bū Najm Yūsuf Bū Naṣīr from Dayr al-Qamar of Ṣaydā (colophon, fol. 134b).
Opening: بسم... [...]ب تاريخ الامير فخر الدين المعنى تغمّده الله بالرحمة فاتحة الكتاب
Incipit: لمن جعل نظام العالم فضلا منه الى تصحيح معاش ابن [ادم] وقدّر الخير والشرّ على ما شاء من عباده [...]
Explicit: ما ياتى من مصطفى باشا الشام فيما ... وهذا اخر ما انتهى الينا من حوادث السنين المذكورة ونسيل الله تعالى ان يختم اعمالنا بالصالحات ... واحسانه فانه اكرم الاكرمين وارحم والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Brown leather over pasteboards. The upper and lower covers have a similar blind-tooled decoration: a central lozenge stamp with four pendants enclosed in an elaborate outer border formed of fillets and a running frame, with a vertical flower-on-stem motif in the inner corners of the border. The spine has been repaired. There are modern pastedowns and endpapers. Modern labels on the spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fakhr al-Dīn II Emir of Lebanon 1572-1635—Early works to 1800
Lebanon—History—Early works to 1800
Druzes—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
276

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c5dc8f21-cce9-4269-9034-1087d1fddd89/manifest