Item Summary

A commentary on al-Qaṣīdah al-Wardīyah, also known as Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khillān.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العرف الندي في شرح قصيدة ابن الوردي / للشيخ عبد الوهاب بن محمد الخطيب الغمري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻArf al-nadī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Ibn al-Wardī / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 11L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg732dn91c
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
74 leaves : paper ; 232 x 160 (170 x 106) mm bound to 233 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 82.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4000/1.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1084.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Text of Ibn al-Wardī's poem with page references to the commentary (fol. 1b-3a).
Collation: Wove or machine-made paper ; fol. 74 + ii ; catchwords ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... قال العبد الفقير عبد الوهاب بن محمد الخطيب الغمري الشافعي ... الحمد لله الذي يسبح [نسج] في الازل شقة النصيحة باعتزال ذکر الاغاني والغزل ...
Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-tooled lines diagonally across the cover and as edging on covers. Blind-tooled edging on flap. Paper pastedowns with wavy red painted lines.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
164

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e1de4668-641b-4f6d-90db-77476f92e8d9/manifest