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كتاب النوافح العطرية واللواقح الفطرية المشتملة على النفحات السرية ومدائح خير البرية
Kitāb al-Nawāfiḥ al-ʻiṭrīyah wa-al-lawāqiḥ al-fiṭrīyah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-nafaḥāt al-sirrīyah wa-madāʼiḥ Khayr al-Barīyah
1624
A eulogy of the Prophet in twenty-nine divisions according to the letters of the alphabet, each of which is composed of twenty pentastichs, each pentastich of a division rhyming in the same letter.
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- Related Name
- دمياطي، محمد بن بكير
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 71H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A eulogy of the Prophet in twenty-nine divisions according to the letters of the alphabet, each of which is composed of twenty pentastichs, each pentastich of a division rhyming in the same letter.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب النوافح العطرية واللواقح الفطرية المشتملة على النفحات السرية ومدائح خير البرية
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Nawāfiḥ al-ʻiṭrīyah wa-al-lawāqiḥ al-fiṭrīyah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-nafaḥāt al-sirrīyah wa-madāʼiḥ Khayr al-Barīyah
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 71H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cn69md71s
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1624
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 59 leaves : paper ; 198 x 150 (150 x 115) mm. bound to 197 x 150 mm.
- Provenance
- Partially damaged certificate? for ... ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʻĪsá ... witnessed by Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan and Muḥsin ibn Abī al-Razzāq; additional statement that it was read/inspected by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Baṣrī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 147.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 59 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Full vowel signs ; line separators and decorations in red ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition, first ten folios defective.
- Layout: 20 lines per page
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied from the text of the author Friday 5 Rabī II 1033 by Muḥammad ibn Bakīr ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥinnāwī al-Dimyāṭī in Mecca (fol. 59b).
- Title from heading (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابتها صبيحة يوم الجمعة المبارك خامس شهر ربيع الثاني سنة 1033 على يد الفقير محمد بن بکير بن احمد الحناوي الدمياطي نزيل مکة المشرفة عفي [عفا] الله عنه آمين
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اقدم باسم الله في القول عندما * بداءت [بدأت] قريظا کاللآلي منظما
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Violet paper pastedowns. Blind-stamped mandorla on lower cover [not visible]
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 126
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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