Item Summary

A short treatise arbitrating between Ibn Barrī, who championed the Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī, and Ibn al-Khashshāb, who criticised them.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية لطيفة على بعض الفاظ وقعت في المقامات الحريرية.
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyah laṭīfah ʻalá baʻḍ alfāẓ waqaʻat fī al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 134H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9c67wx457
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1802
Extent
32 leaves : paper ; 165 x 115 (127 x 58) mm bound to 165 x 120 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 447, VI, p. 61.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 200.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 32 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Watermarks (includes the roman-alphabet letters V.G.[?]) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On title page are three verses of poetry on love. On page after colophon are two verses of wisdom poetry and one on love.
Origin: According to colophon copied 8 Shaʻbān 1217 (fol. 32a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: في الثامن من شهر شعبان سنة الف ومائتين وسبعة عشر.تم.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . الحمدلله مستحق الحمد ومستوجبه
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and embossed orange paper. It appears that it was never sewn. In a case (171 x 123) with a green fabric pull strap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
81

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/344281a0-5c73-40b7-aae4-a9514e7887c4/manifest