Item Summary

A collection of the verses in the Qurʼān which fall under the category of measured poetry.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب قلايد النحور من جواهر البحور / تصنيف شهاب الدين احمد بن محمد بن علي بن حسن بن ابراهيم الحجازي الشافعي الانصاري الخزرجي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Qalāyid al-nuḥūr min jawāhir al-buḥūr / taṣnīf Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥijāzī al-Shāfiʻī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 406H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck643bb65k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1900
Extent
8 leaves : paper ; 175 x 132 (140 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 511.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 568.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7159/60.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 39¹¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Following the colophon occurs an incomplete work on the magical characteristics of the letters of the alphabet, "Khāṣṣīyat al-aḥruf", which covers 15 letters (fol. 7b-8b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and mended.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل مقام الخليل اجل مقام
Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه من خط المصنف عامله الله بلطفه الخفي بمحمد واله وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d75c7514-26c4-45b4-bc14-4f5fca2f5b21/manifest