Item Summary

An abridgment of the commentary of al-Sujāʻī on the famous ode of Imruʼ al-Qays by an anonymous abridger.

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر شرح السجاعي على قصيدة امرئ القيس بن حجر الکندي.
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar sharḥ al-Sujāʻī ʻalá qaṣīdat Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr al-Kindī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z890s3787
Publisher
9 Rabīʻah al-Thānī 1267 [February 10, 1851]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1851
Format
Manuscript
Extent
12 leaves : paper ; 206 x 180 (210 x 110) mm. bound to 257 x 188 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 12 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition with slight foxing and a small area of staining.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 9 Rabīʻah al-Thānī 1267 by Aḥmad ʻArafah ibn Aḥmad ʻArafah al-Rashīdī. (fol. 12a).
Title from fol. 1b.
Colophon: تم في 9 ربىع الثاني مضت من سنة 1267 على يد الفقير لربه القدير احمد عرفة بن الحاج احمد عرفة الرشيدي بلدا الشافعي مذهباً الخلوتي طريقة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم. حمدا لمن جعل اللغة العربية افصح اللغات
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding with red leather and dark brown spotted marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Imruʼ al-Qays 497-545—Muʻallaqah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
38

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d30e04b9-a022-4620-a7c2-0ffbf0199260/manifest