Item Summary

A collection of original poems eulogizing the Prophet and his family, praising the Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī and other saints, and on love, all arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب منايح الالطاف في مدايح الاشراف / لنظم عبد الله بن محمد الشبراوي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Manāyiḥ al-alṭāf fī madāyiḥ al-ashrāf / li-naẓm ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Shabrāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 86H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tq57p1617
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
54 leaves : paper ; 218 x 160 (165 x 100) mm. bound to 210 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Autograph of an owner, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Fatḥī and two obliterated autographs on title page. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8038.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3266.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 332.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 129.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2338.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 + (7) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Headings in red ; folio 50b and 51 written in red and black alternately ; outside cover has a label bearing the title of the book which has been attached by a later hand ; title on top edge of MS illegible. MS in good condition, with loose folios, binding is in poor condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On the title page occur two verses of poetry. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on first and last folios.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol.1a).
Colophon: تمت. يقول ناظمه الفقير عبد الله بن محمد بن عامر الشبراوي ستر الله عيبه هذا ما وقع عليه اختياري واستغفر الله مماجرى به القلم في غير طاعة الباري وعلى الله اعتمادى في سيري وقعادي والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال سيدنا ومولانا ذو الفضايل الباهرة
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central motif with pendants and tooled edging. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
135

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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