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مجموعة شعرية منتخبة من الكتاب المشهور المسمى البدر السافر عن انس المسافر ... [الخ]
Majmūʻah shiʻrīyah muntakhabah min al-kitāb al-mashhūr al-musammá al-Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir ... [etc.]
1714-1771
A poetry anthology containing selections from al-Badr al-Sāfir arranged alphabetically by the authors. Followed by a poem by al-Ab al-Khūrī Nīqūlāwus, Muʻashsharāt al-Fāzānī al-Maghribī, poems by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī and two verses by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAlawī.
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- [between 1714 and 1771]
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 85H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A poetry anthology containing selections from al-Badr al-Sāfir arranged alphabetically by the authors. Followed by a poem by al-Ab al-Khūrī Nīqūlāwus, Muʻashsharāt al-Fāzānī al-Maghribī, poems by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī and two verses by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAlawī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مجموعة شعرية منتخبة من الكتاب المشهور المسمى البدر السافر عن انس المسافر ... [الخ]
- Transliterated Title
- Majmūʻah shiʻrīyah muntakhabah min al-kitāb al-mashhūr al-musammá al-Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 85H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/s7526g03r
- Publisher
- [between 1714 and 1771]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1714-1771
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 104 leaves : paper ; 191 x 142 (145 x 90) mm. bound to 197 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- On the page before title page occur the title by a later hand, an obliterated name dated 1771 and the obscured autograph and seal impression of an owner, al-Muṭrān Aghābiyūs. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 150.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1b-62a: Selections from Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir.
- 2. fol. 63a-66b: [Poem] / al-Ab al-Khūrī Nīqūlāwus. A poem in praise of Christ and the Apostles dated 1714.
- 3. fol. 67a-74b: Muʻashsharāt al-Fāzānī. Poems arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.
- 4. fol. 75a-97b: al-Qaṣāʼid al-farāyid al-maḥbūkāt al-Ṭarafayn / Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.
- 5. fol. 97b-104a: al-Badīʻīyah / Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.
- 6. fol. 104a: Badīʻīyah / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAlawī. Two verses of the poem.
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 104 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition, but several folios worm-eaten.
- Layout: 17-21 lines per page.
- Marginal notes and glosses. On the inside of the front cover the contents of the book are set forth. The end is lacking.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from heading (fol. 1b).
- Ending: فمذ ارى نظري برقا اراق دمي * من طيبة لم اطق يوما ارى قدم
- Incipit: من قول بعضهم يرثي احد خلانه ويظهر معايب الدنيا وضعف امل اصحابها
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown pebbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 222
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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