Item Summary

The original poems of al-Qīrāṭī together with some of his letters to various friends. Poems organized alphabetically by rhyming letter.

Descriptive Information

Title
[مطلع النيرين وبعض رسائل القيراطي]
Transliterated Title
[Maṭlaʻ al-nayyirayn wa-baʻḍ rasāʼil al-Qīrāṭī]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 56H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8623j871r
Publisher
19 Ṣafar 835 [November 5, 1431?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1431
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(4), 128, (1) leaves : paper ; 177 x 135 (125 x 95) mm bound to 177 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 91.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7868.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3209.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1087.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 325.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses in different hand. The work has been collected by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Subkī, whose name is mentioned on folios 4, 50 and 122. Title page and perhaps a few folios are missing. On the two folios after the colophon is an ode by Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Zakarīyā ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muqrī eulogizing al-Malik al-Ashraf Ismāʻīl ibn al-ʻAbbās. The five following folios have a number of letters labelled by a later hand as independent of the MS, but evidently they are by al-Qīrāṭī as well. One of the letters is addressed to Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqrīzī, the famous historian [1365-1442].
Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 128 + (1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; a few lightly pink-tinted folios ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 19 Ṣafar 835 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān ... al-Mālikī (fol. 122a).
Incipit: الابديَّةً والمسرّات السرمديَّة في حنان لاهل ... اما بعد فان من الشعر حكمة وحكما ومن البيان سحوا ...
Colophon: وکتب العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى المعترف بالتقصير الراجي عفوربه القدير محمد بن احمد بن عثمان ... المالکي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولناظمه ولجامعه ومالکه ومن نظر فيه من المسلمين والمسلمات. ويدعوا [ويدعو] لکاتبه بالتوبة والمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين آمين. ووافق فراغه يوم الاحد المبارك تاسع عشرين صفر سنة 835 احسن الله عاقبتها بمحمد وآله والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
277

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b02146c1-c579-4ce4-b4c2-053f4b8b417c/manifest