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حلة الذهب الابريز في رحلة بعلبك والبقاع / العزيز سيدنا الشيخ الفاضل الشيخ عبد الغني النابلسي الاصل الشامي المقر.
Ḥullat al-dhahab al-ibrīz fī riḥlat Baʻlabakk wa-al-Biqāʻ / al-ʻAzīz sayyidnā al-shaykh al-fāḍil al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī al-aṣl al-Shāmī al-maqarr.
1694
An account completed on 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1100 [June 1699] (see end of the copy, fol. 30b) of the author's journey from Damascus to Baʻlabakk and to the plain of the Biqāʻ, from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 15 to Dhū al-Qaʻdah 29 1100 [May 1699].
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An account completed on 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1100 [June 1699] (see end of the copy, fol. 30b) of the author's journey from Damascus to Baʻlabakk and to the plain of the Biqāʻ, from Dhū al-Qaʻdah 15 to Dhū al-Qaʻdah 29 1100 [May 1699].
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- Title
- حلة الذهب الابريز في رحلة بعلبك والبقاع / العزيز سيدنا الشيخ الفاضل الشيخ عبد الغني النابلسي الاصل الشامي المقر.
- Transliterated Title
- Ḥullat al-dhahab al-ibrīz fī riḥlat Baʻlabakk wa-al-Biqāʻ / al-ʻAzīz sayyidnā al-shaykh al-fāḍil al-shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī al-aṣl al-Shāmī al-maqarr.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 269H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2b88qp401
- Publisher
- [1694?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1694
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 31, ii leaves : paper ; 213 x 150 (138 x 77) 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., 758
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Several inscriptions on fol. 1a and 2a.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 31 ; i (fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1-3¹⁰ (fol. 2-31), ii (fly-leaves) ; collation notes ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents (tre lune)).
- Origin: Copied by ʻAdī al-Khāṭī Ibn al-Darwīsh Ḥusayn on a Tuesday at the end of Jumādá al-Awwal 1105 (colophon, fol. 31a). The date is is not clear.
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اعز قدر البقاع بما اودع فيها من اهل الارتقا والارتفاع ... اما بعد فيقول شيخنا ... الشيخ عبد الغنى بن الشيخ اسماعيل النابلسي ... لقد سيّر الله تعالي لنا السير الى ارض البقاع.
- Explicit: فان الكل مخلوق بالحق حتي اللعب واللهو والخطا والسهو والله اللطيف الخير العلي الكبير وصلي ... وكر الملاوان قال المصنف ... وقد فرغنا من التحرير ... بيبة الاربعا العشرين من ذي الحجة سنة ماية والف ... وسلم تسليما ابدا ليوم الدين.
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled brown, green and cream paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Burgundy dyed paper pastedowns.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 74
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8e327c33-7b02-41a8-9278-fb78531c224c/manifest