Item Summary

The author's commentary on Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb fī naẓm Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ḥabīb.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب رفع الخصايص عن طلاب قراء الخصايص / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن ... بن علي بن علان البكري الصديقي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Rafʻ al-khaṣāyiṣ ʻan ṭullāb qirāʼ al-khaṣāyiṣ / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ... ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAllān al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 225H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5d86p9383
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1643
Extent
(4), 103, (4) leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 209 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Title page carries two ownership signatures, one partially obliterated, and the other for Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 649.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 103 + (4) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; watermarks (text has three crescents, later flyleaves have shield with face-in-the-moon and roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 27-37 lines per page.
Marginal notes. Title page carries an obliterated inscription that it was composed in 1032 [1622/2]. After the colophon is a statement that the copy from which the present MS was made is full of flaws and mistakes. On the page after the colophon is a quotation from the Dalāʼil al-minhāj of al-Ḥalabī.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 20 Jumādá II 1053 (fol. 103a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم المصنف المبارك في ليلة الجمعة عشرين شهر جمادى الاخرى من سنة ثلاث وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله رب العالمين
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي شرف نبيه على ساير الخلق
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in floral striped fabric. Under the fabric is red leather and cream paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
253

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/03820558-5c34-4d4a-a144-4c62ba31e3f1/manifest