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سيرة الملك الاسكندر ذو القرنين ووزيره السيد الولي الخضر وما جرى لهم من الكلام والعجيب والامر المطرب الغريب
Sīrat al-Malik al-Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn wa-wazīrihi al-Sayyid al-Walī al-Khiḍr wa-mā jará la-hum min al-kalām wa-al-ʻajīb wa-al-amr al-muṭrib al-gharīb
1762-1767
A biography of Alexander the Great and a history of his conquests, with many legends about him.
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- Author
- Ṣūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mufarrij, -approximately 1495
- صوري، ابراهيم بن المفرج، -approximately 1495
- Related Name
- قيري، محمد بن قاسم، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 170Hq
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page, volume 1 (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; volume 1: ii (later paper) + (1) + 242 + iii (later paper); volume 2: i + 176 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (vol. 1 only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25-28 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated (vol. 1 only) ; watermarks (vol. 2: three crescents) ; MS in fair to good condition.
- Origin: First volume apparently completed in 1176 (v. 1, fol. 240b). According to colophon volume 2 completed 16 Ramaḍān 1180 by Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Qīrrī? (v. 2, fol. 176a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الملك الجبار الرحيم الستار العظيم ... اما بعد فقد قال الشيخ العارف ابو اسحاق ابن مفرج الصوري رحما لله تعالي اما بعد فقد وقفت علي ساير وفصص الانبيا وسير الملوك ...
- Colophon (vol. 1): تم النصف الاول من سيرة اسکندر ذي القرنين ابن داراب الرومي والله الموفق للصواب واليه المرجع والمآب
- Binding Note
- Volume 1: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper. Volume 2: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind tooled edging on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Block pressed design on blue paper pastedowns. Volume is larger than volume 1.
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Item Summary
A biography of Alexander the Great and a history of his conquests, with many legends about him.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- سيرة الملك الاسكندر ذو القرنين ووزيره السيد الولي الخضر وما جرى لهم من الكلام والعجيب والامر المطرب الغريب
- Transliterated Title
- Sīrat al-Malik al-Iskandar Dhū al-Qarnayn wa-wazīrihi al-Sayyid al-Walī al-Khiḍr wa-mā jará la-hum min al-kalām wa-al-ʻajīb wa-al-amr al-muṭrib al-gharīb
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 170Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbv73cc214
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1762-1767
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 2 volumes (242, 176) leaves : paper ; 293-325 x 195-225 (230-240 x 125-130) mm bound to 300-325 x 214-235 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-Qāḍī ibn ʻUthmān al-Hindī, obscured names, with dates of 1188 and 1233, seal impressions (v. 1, fol. 1a); Saʻd dated 1182, Aḥmad? Rafʻat (f. 2, fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 735, 735.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 707-9.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9109.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3682-5.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2385-93.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page, volume 1 (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; volume 1: ii (later paper) + (1) + 242 + iii (later paper); volume 2: i + 176 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (vol. 1 only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25-28 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated (vol. 1 only) ; watermarks (vol. 2: three crescents) ; MS in fair to good condition.
- Origin: First volume apparently completed in 1176 (v. 1, fol. 240b). According to colophon volume 2 completed 16 Ramaḍān 1180 by Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Qīrrī? (v. 2, fol. 176a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الملك الجبار الرحيم الستار العظيم ... اما بعد فقد قال الشيخ العارف ابو اسحاق ابن مفرج الصوري رحما لله تعالي اما بعد فقد وقفت علي ساير وفصص الانبيا وسير الملوك ...
- Colophon (vol. 1): تم النصف الاول من سيرة اسکندر ذي القرنين ابن داراب الرومي والله الموفق للصواب واليه المرجع والمآب
- Binding Note
- Volume 1: Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper. Volume 2: Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind tooled edging on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Block pressed design on blue paper pastedowns. Volume is larger than volume 1.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- 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/cf6287e3-199d-46c0-b387-b42b8c376adc/manifest