Item Summary

A Takhmīs of the famous Burdah, a eulogy of the Prophet delivered in his presence by Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr. Followed by Qurrat al-ʻayn fī maʻrifat al-qillatayn, a short text on weights.

Descriptive Information

Title
تنفيس الشدة وبلوغ المراد في تخميس البردة وهي بانت سعاد ... [الخ]
Transliterated Title
Tanfīs al-shiddah wa-bulūgh al-murād fī Takhmīs al-Burdah wa-hiya Bānat Suʻād ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hm50v228q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1777
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 228 x 160 (160 x 100) mm. bound to 236 x 171 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-5a: Tanfīs al-shiddah wa-bulūgh al-murād fī Takhmīs al-Burdah wa-hiya Bānat Suʻād / al-Imām al-Wāsiṭī.
2. fol. 5b-6b: Kitāb Qurrat al-ʻayn fī maʻrifat al-qillatayn / ʻAlī ʻĀṭīyah al-Ghamrīnī.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. v + 6 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and takhmīs in black ; MS in excellent condition.
Layout: 24 lines per page.
Marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Origin: [Tanfīs al-shiddah] Copied Ramaḍān 1191 by Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī (fol. 5a) ; [Qurrat al-ʻayn] Copied Sunday 10 Ramaḍān 1191 by Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī (fol. 6b).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Colophon: [تنفيس الشدة] تمت القصيدة اللامية بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد افقر عباد ربه واحوجهم الى عفوه ومغفرته محمد هيکل الدروي غفر الله [له] ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين ; [قرة العين ] ووافق الفراغ من نسخها يوم الاحد المبارك العاشر من رمضان المعظم سنة 1191 على يد افقر عباد ربه واحوجهم الى عفوه ومغفرته محمد هيکل الدروي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين آمين
Incipit: [تنفيس الشدة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ان قيل ما بال الجسم منك معلول ; [قرة العين ] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول الحقيرعلي عطية
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III binding (without flap) in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
38

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/3b611b41-d3d2-4b8a-9570-e126f338c986/manifest