Item Summary

An anthology of verse and prose in five parts. The first contains al-Muṭawwalāt, the second al-Azjāl wa-al-Muwashshaḥāt, the third al-Maqāṭīʻ, the fourth al-Nathrīyāt and the fifth al-Ḥikāyāt. Composed 826 [1423].

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب روض الاداب / للشيخ شهاب الدين ابو العباس احمد الحجازي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Rawḍ al-ādāb / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Ḥijāzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 145H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfn107759b
Publisher
Makkah, 11 Muḥarram 1265 [December 7, 1848?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1848
Format
Manuscript
Extent
210 leaves : paper ; 258 x 173 (200 x 100-125) mm. bound to 255 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Title page bears a number of ownership signatures, most obscured. One ownership signature for Muḥammad al-Anṣārī is dated 978 which conflicts with the colophon dating of the MS. Acquired form Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 510.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1104/5.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 400.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 213.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1119.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 210 + ii ; catchwords ; foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink ; quires signed 3-20 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators and some overwriting in red ; watermarks (shield, letters "A C") ; MS in good condition, first and last folios mended.
Layout: 24-32 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
On the title page is a statement by the copyist that the present MS has been copied from the original. Folios 49 to 104, 174, 175 and the last are of different kind of paper, and writing is by a later hand. On folio after the colophon is an elegy by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Hajrasi al-Dimyāṭī containing a tārīkh for the year 1265 [1848], the date of the death of the Shaykh ʻUthmān al-Dimyāṭī, for whom the elegy was recited.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 11 Muḥarram 1265 in Mekka by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khālidī (fol. 109b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وکان ذلك صبيحة يوم الجمعة حادي عشر شهر الله المحرّم افتتاح سنة 1265 بمکة المشرفة على يد الحقير اسمعيل بن عبدالله الخالدي عفى [عفا] الله عنهما. آمين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. رب يسّر وأعن وتمم بخير يا لريم [کريم]. آمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Flap detached. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants surrounded by blind-stamped motifs. Blind-tooled decorative border. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
439

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5884d8fc-136c-4764-be54-a8f83ee36270/manifest