Item Summary

Short biographies of the illustrious men of the eleventh Muslim century.

Descriptive Information

Title
في تراجم اعيان الحجاز واليمن في القرن الحادي عشر / بخط محمد امين افندى المحبى.
Transliterated Title
Fī tarājim aʻyān al-Ḥijāz wa-al-Yaman fī al-qarn al-ḥādī ʻashar / bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad Amīn Afandī al-Muḥibbī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 213H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hm50v097j
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1687-1800
Extent
158 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (200 x 137) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Modern ownership stamp of Muḥammad Tawfīq, Cairo in several locations. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 710.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9893/4.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1192-5.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2083.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1304/5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from upper pastedown.
Marginal glosses. MS incomplete at beginning and end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 158 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-29 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (coat-of-arms over two circles) ; MS in good condition.
Ending: هل ترى يمکن سلوه لجو جسم صبوه
Beginning: الاتفاق وهو التواطو على ايجاد هذا النظام ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in dark red leather. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
322

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1564a0c4-29dd-4834-b647-26d1a1560bd0/manifest