Item Summary

The text of, and the commentary on Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr, an ode containing the names of all those who took part on the side of the Prophet, in the Battle of Badr. The ode was occasioned by the appeal, circulated by Shaykh al-Islām, for special prayers for the Turkish army in its struggle against the Persian Nādir Shāh and was composed in 1158/1745.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الصدر بشرح ارجوزة استنزال النصر بالتوسل باهل بدر.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-ṣadr bi-sharḥ urjūzat Istinzāl al-naṣr bi-al-tawassul bi-ahl Badr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1135H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcq524k0730
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1781
Extent
141 leaves : paper ; 215 x 137 (155 x 75) mm. bound to 213 x 138 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-Shaybī, fātiḥ Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1969.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 3a).
A few marginal notes. Inscriptions on folio 141a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 141 ; catchwords ; watermarks (coat-of-arms; grapes?) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 4 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1195. Scribe's name has been erased (fol. 140b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى خص نبينا محمد اصلى الله عليه وسلم بخصائص اعلى له قدرا وميزه بكتاب احكمت اياته وشرح له به صدرا ...
Colophon: وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة علي يد افقر العباد الى الله تعالى [...] في يوم الخميس المبارك رابع شهر ربيع الثانى الذى هو من شهور سنة خمس وتسعين ومائه والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها الفضل الصلاة والسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled cross-hatch marks across the entire cover with a decorative edging.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
293

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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