Item Summary

A story by a grammarian on how the pitcher became sovereign over the other drinking vessels.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب طراز الحلة في سلطنة القلة / تأليف محمد نشار.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ṭirāz al-ḥullah fī salṭanat al-qullah / taʼlīf Muḥammad Nashshār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 161H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs4655s27f
Language
Arabic
Extent
18, (2) leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (135 x 90).
Provenance
On the title page is the autograph of an owner, Ḥusayn al-Jará al-Ḥanafī. After the colophon is the autograph of a reader, Maḥmūd Abū al-Mawāhib. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 229.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; 18 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (cross, crescents, lettering "C R") ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the leaf after the colophon is a statement about the characteristics of the people of various countries.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت المقامة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين. تم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الذي خلق الانسان من طين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
45

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/2d1886c1-4ca3-403c-8eb0-f77e85ba6140/manifest