Item Summary

Collection of letters in rhymed prose (sajʻ). See Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 4365 for the identification of the author as Abū Saʻīd (or Saʻd) al-ʻAmīdī and of the persons to whom the letters are addressed, among them Abū al-Faraj Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qushūrī, Qarwash al-Wazīr (d. 442 H.), ʻAmīd al-Dawlah al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ [al-Rūdhbārī].

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسائل]
Transliterated Title
[Rasāʼil].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4059Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mc87pq31w
Publisher
[1832]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1832
Format
Manuscript
Extent
104 leaves : paper ; 210 x 135 (156 x 69) mm. bound to 214 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4365
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title provided by cataloger, according to R. Mach.
28 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red and blue/grey (see fol. Db, l. 9, fol. 6a, l. 12-13). European paper with watermark (Tre Lune). The paper has been ruled. On fol. Ab-Ba: Table of contents. On fol. Bb: Note to copyists on how to copy properly. On fol. Da: erased title and ownership statements with stamps. On the last fol. (fol. 100b): prayer. The recto of the front fly-leaf (fol. Aa) and the verso of the back fly-leaf (fol. 100b) are painted in orange/red. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starting with fol. 1a on fol. 2). This record is in accordance with this foliation. Title in Arabic on a label pasted on the spine (vertical).
Copied on 2 Ramaḍān 1247 (colophon, fol. 99b).
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... وبعد فقد علقت كفي على هذه الرقاع
Beginning of the first letter: له من اثتاء رسالة يقول فيها لكل اول اخر ومع كل عسر يسر وبعد كل يوم غد
Explicit: من بضايعهم الكواسد بقدرته وسلطانه وقهره وامتنائه
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and several frames of fillets and a running s-shape pattern.

Discovery Information

Subject
Epistolary poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Scribes—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Sajʻ—Early works to 1800
Arabic prose literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/56f8a185-9a41-45f3-9446-177230365e8a/manifest