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An Arabic commentary on the Gulistān of Saʻdī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shīrāzī, 691 [1291/2].
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- Related Name
- خطيب، محمد، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 173H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An Arabic commentary on the Gulistān of Saʻdī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shīrāzī, 691 [1291/2].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- شرح کلستان.
- Transliterated Title
- Sharḥ Gulistān.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 173H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731d54r
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1648
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (3), 299 leaves : paper ; 208 x 120 (135 x 65) mm. bound to 205 135 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8441/2³.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3520.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1059/60.
- Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 554.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 230.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 206.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 299 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition, some staining.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses. In the introduction the author states that he composed his work for the Sultan Muṣṭafá ibn Sulaymān [I], 960 [1553]. On the page before the first and the two folios preceding are several verses of poetry in Turkish and Persian, the autograph of an owner, a table of contents, a story about the caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, four Turkish seal impressions, another illegible one and some statements in Turkish. After the colophon and on the folio following are several verses of poetry and some statements in Turkish.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied 8 Muḥarram 1058 by Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb in Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Bā Yazīd (fol. 298b).
- Title from bottom edge of MS.
- Colophon: تم تنميق هذا الکتاب عن يد الفقير محمد الخطيب بجامع بايزيد خان عليه الرحمة والرضوان قصبته امکرمان وقت صبح اليوم الثامن من المحرم الحرام المنتظم لسنة ثمان وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعلني من علماء البيان
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled eding and blind-stamped mandorlas with pendants on cover, flap, and along the spine.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 615
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/dba6ac24-96da-4012-957e-3e69c22da694/manifest