Descriptive Information

Title

صفوة الزبد

Transliterated Title

[Ṣafwat al-Zubad].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2859Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5425kd30x

Publisher

[Caucasus, 1849]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1849

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 61, i leaves : paper ; 218 x 172 (145 x 100) mm. bound to 220 x 175 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1469

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 96 (29/1) ; SII

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger, according to R. Mach.

Physical description: 10 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, green, and yellow. The text is framed within a single red line. Woven paper. Annotations between lines, on the margins, and on a slip of paper pasted between fol. 28 and 29. Table of contents on fol. 1bis(b)-1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first folio). Catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "---(?) 174". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "912/2 ḥāʼ".

Origin: Copied by Ghāzī Muḥammad in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1265 [Oct.-Nov. 1849] (colophon, fol. 60a).

Patronage: Copied for Dānyāl Sulṭān ("al-amīr al-muhājir al-mujāhid") (colophon, fol. 60a).

Incipit: الحمد للاله ذى الجلال وشارع الحرام والحلال ثم صلاة الله مع سلامى على النبى المصطفى ... وبعد هذى زبد نظمتها آبياتها الف بما قدرتها يسهل حفظها على الاطفال

Explicit: ان لا يكون غير ما يشاء فعلمنا ان لم يرد هباء والحمد لله على الكمال سائل توفيق لحسن الحال ثم الصلاة والسلام ابدا على النبى الهاشمى احمدا والال والصحب ومن لهم قفى وحسبنا الله تعالى وكفى

Binding Note

Blue cloth over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject

Danii︠a︡l-sultan—Library

Islamic law—Early works to 1800

Shafiites—Early works to 1800

Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Sufism—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

ابن البارزي، هبة الله بن نجم الدين—زبد

Physical Characteristics

File Count

68

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/85b72bed-6859-4e3b-af23-48ca663de13e/manifest

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