Item Summary

A commentary on the ode of Ibn al-Fāriḍ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح لطيف لبعض الفضلا على قصيدة ابن الفارض.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā sharḥ laṭīf li-baʻḍ al-fuḍalā ʻalá qaṣīdat Ibn al-Fāriḍ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 34H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/47429k69t
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1730
Extent
20 leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (145 x 90) mm. bound to 220 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn dated 1156, and Aḥmad Ḥammūdah ʻUthmān with his? ṭughrāʼ (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7071-3.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 825⁴, 1206⁶, 4230¹.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 43.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 30³, 143⁴.
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 51.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubrications ; text in red and commentary in black ; MS is in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Ms. codex.
On the title page are nine verses of poetry. After the colophon are six verses of poetry by al-Shāfiʻī. On the following page and folio are two verses of poetry followed by the Muthallath (ternaries) of Quṭrub which treats of those words which bear three different significations, according to whether the first syllable is pronounced with the vowels a, i, or u.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday [1 Dhu] al-Qaʻdah 1142 (fol. 19a). Post-colophon material dated 1143.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة يوم الخميس افتتاح شهرالقعدة سنة الف وماية واثنين واربعين والحمد لله وحده ولا رب سواه
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي اغرقنا في بحور نعمائه
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with black spots.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb0eeb31-902e-46e1-b358-7ca32a4d6f33/manifest