Item Summary

A biography of the Prophet in 1000 verses.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب متن الفية السيرة / للشيخ عبد الرحيم العراقي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Matn Alfīyat al-sīrah / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʻIrāqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 221H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3197xx220
Publisher
27 Shaʻbān 1270 [May 25, 1854]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854
Format
Manuscript
Extent
37, (1) leaves : paper ; 236 x 168 (160 x 116) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 157⁴, 9584/5.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 444.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 215/6.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 643.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1794.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-4 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 27 Shaʻbān 1270 (fol. 37b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في يوم الخميس المبارك الموافق لسبع وعشرين من شهر شعبان سنة الف وماتين وسبعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التحية امين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن ... يقول راجي من اليه المهرب
Binding Note
Unbound. Quires never sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
80

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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