Item Summary

A commentary on the work of Jaʻfar al-Barzanjī, 1184 [1770/1], being a short biography of the Prophet commemorating his birth.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فتح العليم الستار المنجي على قصة المولد للعلامة جعفر البرزنجي / تأليف عبد الله بن علي بن يوسف بن يعقوب الملكي الملقب بالفارسي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Fatḥ al-ʻalīm al-sattār al-munajjī ʻalá qiṣṣat al-mawlid lil-ʻAllāmah Jaʻfar al-Barzanjī / taʼlīf ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʻqūb al-Malakī al-mulaqqab bi-al-Fārisī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 235H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vd26j
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1857
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 221 x 164 (175 x 110) mm bound to 218 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Fol. 1a has the ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʻAqīl. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 661.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 60 + 1 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 23 Rajab 1273 by ʻIwaḍ Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaram al-Makkī (fol. 60a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وعليه اعتمادي الحمد لله الذي شرف الموجودات خصوصا العرب
Colophon: وتم هذا الکتاب بحمد الملك الوهاب بالحرم المکي قبيل باب الکعبة يوم الثلاث المبارك الموافق للثالث والعشرين من رجب الذي هو من شهور سنة 1273 من هجرة من خلقه الله على اکمل وصف. على يد عوض احمد. م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and violet marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
134

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af23f481-3f49-46ad-9286-7498a4d58495/manifest