Item Summary

A cosmographical work, being a description of the wonders seen by the author in his travels. It is divided into four sections, namely: (1) a description of the world and its inhabitants; (2) the wonders and remarkable structures of various lands; (3) description of the seas and the wonders of its animals, of ambergris, pitch, naphtha and fire in its islands; (4) description of graves and tombs.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الاحباب ونخبة الاعجاب / للشيخ ابي عبد الله محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن سليمان الغرناطي.
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb wa-nukhbat al-aʻjāb / lil-Shaykh Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān al-Gharnāṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 588H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckw52jk727
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
31 leaves : paper ; 212 x 164 (170-200 x 120-160) mm. bound to 212 x 164 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 766.
al-Maqqarī (Leyden), p. 617.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 222.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6038/9.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2167-71.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 686.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
On the title page is a statement from Ḥā̄jjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 222 to the effect that the author died after 560 [1164/5]. Folios 26b-29b, 30b-31b, and the verso of the following folio contain historical accounts about early Islamic figures including Caliph ʻAbd al-Mālik ibn Marwān, ʻAlī ibn Jabalah al-ʻAkawwak, Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jabalah ibn al-Ayham.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 31 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-25 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "VG"; 3 faces-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر ولا تعسر رب تممر بالخير الحمد لله الذي ابدع العالم على توحيده فشهد كل موجود بوجوده ... اما بعد ان الله سبحانه وتعالى جلت قدرته وشملت رحمته قدمن علي جميع العباد نعما ما لها تناه ...
Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب والله الهادي الى الصواب وهو الملك الوهاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا وهادينا ومهدينا محمد وعلى آل محمد وصحبه وازواجه وذريته واهل بيته عدد کل حرف کتب ويکتب ابد الابدين ودهر الداهرين الى ان يرث الله الارض ومن عليها وهو خير الوارثين امين تم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in material and blue marbled paper. Brown paper pastedowns and endpapers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Geography, Medieval—Early works to 1800
Voyages and travels—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6d84eda-7079-4086-bfee-93d9ae1d4dd7/manifest