Item Summary

Elegant copy of a description of the beauties of Damascus, together with its history, divided into six sections, completed in 1003 H. (mentioned at the end of the title, according to Kashf al-ẓunūn; see fol. 1a). For a more detailed description, see Hitti, P. Garrett coll., no. 753.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الانام في فضائل الشام / لشمس الدين ابي العباس احمد بن محمد البصراوي المعروف بابن الامام.
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-anām fī faḍāʼil al-Shām / li-Shams al-Dīn Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Buṣrāwī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Imām.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg158bt53w
Publisher
[1662]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1662
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 124, i leaves : paper ; 181 x 106 (131 x 56) mm. bound to 180 x 113 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Brill; 1900.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 755
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 361/7
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 489/7
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric on fol. 1a.
A few marginal notes (see fol. 103b and 118b). The last folio repeats with some changes the previous fol., in such a manner that there are two slightly different colophons for this copy. Several inscriptions and short excerpts from the Ṣiḥāḥ of [Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād] Jawharī (d. 1003?) on fol. 1a. Inscription in pencil in Roman script: "W-ll. 1152" on fol. (i)a (see Houtsma, M. Catalogue, 1886).
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 124 + (1) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks.
Decoration: The text is framed within gilt and black and red fillets on fol. 1b-3a, gold and black on fol. 3b-5a, one single black fillet on fol. 5b-11a and 111a-115a.
Colophon 1 (fol. 123a): copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá al-mudarris al-Darāmuwī?, on Monday 12 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1072. Colophon 2 (fol. 124a): copied on Monday 12 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1072, followed by a note in Ottoman Turkish by the same hand giving the name of the copyist as Nāʼibʹzādah ʻAbd Allāh. This might be the same as the ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá (d. 1079/1668) mentioned in ʻUlamā Dimashq wa-aʻyānuhā fī al-qarn al-ḥādī ʻashar (1421/2000), vol. 2, p. 341.
Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية الاخر بلا نهاية ... وبعد فهذه اوراق اذكر فيها ان شاء الله تعالى ما تيسر الاطلاع عليه وسهل الوصول اليه.
Explicit: ريح من اليمن فتقبض ارواح المومنين والمؤمنات وتقوم الساعة على شرار الخلق والله تعالى اعلم وصلى الله تعالى على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلّم.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Blind-stamped and gold painted/tooled mandorla. Spine, egdes and fore-edge flap repaired. Endbands. Block-stamped paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Damascus (Syria)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Damascus (Syria)—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
263

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/31ea30f9-dce8-4a8c-a0f6-d6ff0068bc6c/manifest