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كتاب نشر العلم في شرح لامية العجم / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عمر بحرق الحضرمي.
Kitāb Nashr al-ʻalam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻajam / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Buḥraq al-Ḥaḍramī.
1781
A commentary on the famous odes of al-Ṭughrāʼi rhyming in lām.
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Item Summary
A commentary on the famous odes of al-Ṭughrāʼi rhyming in lām.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب نشر العلم في شرح لامية العجم / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عمر بحرق الحضرمي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Nashr al-ʻalam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻajam / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Buḥraq al-Ḥaḍramī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 21H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pc289t64q
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1781
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 74 leaves : paper ; 206 x 150 (157 x 80) mm. bound to 214 x 158 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Ownership signatures: ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Bā Jasīr[?]; Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān Bābāḥī; and two obscured signatures (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7668/9
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2502
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 656
- Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 567
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 595
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 294
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 36.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2250¹¹
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 74 + (1) + iv ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-8 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; full vowel signs ; MS in excellent condition.
- Layout: 19-23 lines per page ; ruled ; wide outer margin.
- Marginal notes and glosses.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied al-Khamīs 19 Rabīʻah al-Awwal [1]195 (fol. 74b).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a)
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه يوم الخميس المبارك تاسع عشر ربيع الاول سنة 195 وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
- Incipit.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الکريم المنان المنعم بالايجاد والاحسان
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound western binding with red leather and blue marbled paper.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 170
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c286194d-3ba4-4370-9af7-0f695b7fa50f/manifest