Item Summary

Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh).

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الطراز المنقوش في محاسن الحبوش / تأليف الامام العلامة ابو المعالي علاء الدين بن محمد بن عبد الباقي البخاري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh / taʼlīf al-imām al-ʻAllāmah Abū al-Maʻālī ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Bukhārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 193H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch128nq50x
Publisher
[17-- or 18 --]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
62 leaves : paper ; 220 x 161 (153 x 86) mm. bound to 232 x 175 mm.
Provenance
On fol. 1a: ownership statement and seal. The same seal appears at the beginning of each quire and on fol. 2a. There is another seal on fol. 2a and 62b. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Brill ; 1900.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 604
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 385/2
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 519/2
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 62a).
On fol. 1a: folio count, ownership statement and seal impression. The same seal impression appears at the beginning of each quire and on fol. 2a. There is another seal impression on fol. 2a and 62b.
Collation : Paper ; fol. 62 ; 1-5¹⁰ 6¹² ; horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان من صلصال من حماء مسنون وفضل بعضه علي بعض فهم بذلك يتفارقون ... [2ب] وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقة.
Explicit: ويتم بهجتي لكن بشرط وكان(؟) الشطر اخره سلامه تم.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather with green paper with a painted red and black floral motif .
Green paper with a painted red and black floral motif pasted on leather over paper pasteboards for the upper and lower covers and envelope flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—1258-1800
Ethiopians—Early works to 1800
National characteristics, Ethiopian—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800
Islam—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
135

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/963ec2d8-5361-47a1-831b-7e8d414f8e75/manifest