Item Summary

A collection of poems and the lives of their authors. MS in six parts: (1) the fine qualities of the people of Damascus and its environs, (2) the fine qualities of contemporary Maghribis, (3) Makkah and its inhabitants, (4) Egypt, (5) the Greeks and some of the authorʼs experiences with Greek leaders.

Descriptive Information

Title
ريحانة الالبا وزهرة الحياة الدنيا / للعلامة شهاب الدين افندي الخفاجي.
Transliterated Title
Rayḥānat al-alibbā wa-zahrat al-ḥayāh al-dunyā / lil-ʻAllāmah Shihāb al-Dīn Afandī al-Khafājī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 150H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn8710146x
Publisher
14 Rajab 1245 [January 9, 1830]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1830
Format
Manuscript
Extent
247 leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (167 x 97) mm. bound to 220 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7415/6, 10219³.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2134-6.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 524.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 407/8.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 259.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 218.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1123.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
A few marginal notes. On back of the first page are eleven verses of poetry, two of which are by Manṣūr al-Balbīsi.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 247 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; quires signed 1-25 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; verse separators in red ; rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet cursive letters "PR" ; MS in excellent condition.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 14 Rajab 1245 by ʻUthmān al-Ṭishāwī/al-Ṭanishāwī[?] (fol. 247a).
Title from colophon (fol. 247a).
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة الشريفة يوم السبت المبارك اربع عشرة يوما خلت من رجب سنة 1245 على يد کاتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى عثمان الطيشاوي عفي عنه
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. حمدا لمن سرح عيون البصائر
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and tooled edging. Blind-stamped motif and tooling on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Block stamped design in red and yellow on pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poets, Arab—Early works to 1800
Poetry
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
507

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/02056999-1a43-4ad6-ac55-a2545290bb2f/manifest