Item Summary

Description of the beauties of Damascus, together with its history, divided into six sections. For a more detailed description, see Hitti, P. Garrett coll., no. 753.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تحفة الانام في فضائل الشام / تأليف العلامة قطب دمشق الشيخ جلال الدين ابو الفضل محمد بن اقضى القضاه علاء الدين علي ابن جمال الدين يوسف البصروي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-anām fī faḍāʼil al-Shām / taʼlīf al-ʻAllāmah Quṭb Dimashq al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn aqḍá al-quḍāh ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī Ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf al-Buṣrawī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 266H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6h441371z
Publisher
[1669]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1669
Format
Manuscript
Extent
115 leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (160 x 100) mm. bound to 210 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and reading notes in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Ḥasan ..., Aḥmad ʻAlwān, etc. on fol. 1a. Several inscriptions on fol. 114b-115a, with a reading statement dated 1122 H. [1710]. 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., 754
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 361/7
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 489/7
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 114 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-22 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
Origin: Copied on 24 Muḥarram? 1080 (colophon, fol. 114a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا بداية الاخر بلا نهاية ... وبعد فهذه اوراق اذكر فيها ان شاء الله تعالى ما تيسر الاطلاع عليه وسهل الوصول اليه.
Explicit: ريح من اليمن فتقبض ارواح المومنين وتقوم الساعة على شرار الخلق والله سبحانه و تعالي اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب.
Binding Note
Later, reused type III (without flap) binding, apparently originally for a bigger ms. since the lower edge of the upper cover and the upper edge of the lower cover have been cut out, and the central panel is now to the tail of the upper cover and to the head of the lower cover. Brown leather over paper pasteboards with a blind-stamped and gold painted "central" mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Outer frame made of blind-tooled and gold painted fillets and a running pattern. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Damascus (Syria)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Damascus (Syria)—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

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/f32edc6a-85a2-493a-a144-06de10d857bf/manifest