Item Summary

A commentary on the verses of poetry quoted or referred to in al-Muṭawwal and al-Mukhtaṣar, the long and short commentaries of ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
عقود الدررفي حل ابيات المطول والمختصر.
Transliterated Title
ʻUqūd al-durar fī ḥall abyāt al-Muṭawwal wa-al-Mukhtaṣar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 428H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdj52wg162
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1765
Extent
102 leaves : paper ; 226 x 166 (170 x 115) mm. bound to 225 x 166 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures (fol. 1a): Muḥammad, [second signature obliterated]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 548.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 7a).
A few marginal notes; marginal summaries. Two lines of verse by ʻAbd Allāh ... al-Fānī and historical snippets from 1186 and 1191 on fol. 1a. Alphabetical index of the verses on folios 3b-5b. Title appears on the lower edge.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 + iv ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25-26 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Verses in red and commentary in black ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 14 Shawwāl 1178 by Surūr (fol. 101b).
Incipit: بسم الله ... يا من اطلع في سماء بيانه بديع البراعة
Colophon: تم تحرير هذه النسخة على يدي العبد الفقير الراجي رحمة ربه العالي سرور تابع علي افندي الشرواني غفر الله لمواليه واليه واحسن اليهما واليه ضحوة يوم الجمعة لاربع عشر ليلة مضت من شوال من سنة 1178
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Foil-stamped mandorla and corner decorations. Blind-tooled edging. Possibly a type II binding which is lacking its flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/50dfd6fc-9a63-4206-b321-b90b86cf0de1/manifest