Item Summary

Collection of poems. The text is followed on fol. 58a-b by more poetry.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الثمرات الشهية من الفواكه الحموية / تأليف الشيخ تقي الدين [---] المتأدبين ابو بكر بن حجة الحموي منشي ديوان الانشاء الشريف بالمملكة الاسلامية رحمه الله تعالى امين
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Thamarāt al-shahīyah min al-fawākih al-ḥamawīyah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn [---] al-mutaʼaddibīn Abū Bakr ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī munshī dīwān al-inshāʼ al-sharīf bi-al-mamalkah al-islāmīyah raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá amīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 231B
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctb09jh85f
Publisher
[1618]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1618
Extent
i, 59, i leaves: paper ; 201 x 145 (140 x 95) mm. bound to 204 x 150 mm.
Provenance
On fol. 1a: Impression of a circular stamp dated 1028 H., apparently in the name of the copyist ; partially erased reading statement. On fol. 57b: Reading statement dated Zāwiyah al-Ḥājj ...?, 22 Shaʻbān 32 ; ownership statement in the name of Nimāyal walad Yūsuf walad ...?, dated 10 Muḥarram 1210, with mention of price. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 98
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by ʻUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Damīrī al-Mālikī(?) on 4 Muḥarram 1028 [Dec. 22, 1618], from an old copy, dated Thursday 28 Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 861 [March 25, 1457] (fol. 57b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ العالم العلامة فريد دهره وناظم شمل الادب فى نثره تفى الدين ابي بكر ابن حجة الحموي منشي ديوان الانشا الشريف بالمملكة الاسلامية لطف الله به ورحمه الحمد لله الذي لا يحصى مجموع فضله ديوان ولا تقابل بذكره جبره بالنسيان علمنا البيان فعلمنا اهن بديع السموات والارض ... [2ب] ... وبعد فهذه اوراق في رياض الادب زاهره بل نجوم في سما البلاغة
Binding Note
Dark red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled and stamped. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
126

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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