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A collection of original poems of narrative, historical events and correspondence of the type called Muzdawijah.
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- Publisher
- [not before 1781]
- People
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- Author
- Āzād Bilgrāmī, Ghulām ʻAlī ibn Nūḥ, 1704-1786
- آزاد بلگرامي، غلام علي بن نوح، 1704-1786
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 91H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of original poems of narrative, historical events and correspondence of the type called Muzdawijah.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مظهر البرکات.
- Transliterated Title
- Muẓhir al-barakāt.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 91H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tt44px47g
- Publisher
- [not before 1781]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1781-1900
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 136, (1) leaves : paper ; 243 x 147 (200 x 105) mm. bound to 245 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- Autograph of an owner, Muḥammad Shawqī Afandī, and his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 136.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 136 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
- In the introduction the author explains this special type of poetry and states that putting stories and events into verse is very natural to the Persian tongue and is called Mathnawi, but that it is natural neither to the Arabic nor the Indian tongues. The book is divided into seven divisions, each called a daftar. On folio 131 and the five following folios are a short biography of the author and the story of the composition of the book. On the title page is a statement that the book was bought for 60 piasters.
- Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from label on case.
- Colophon: وهذه الرسالة الفائقة دالة على علو طبيعته ورشاقة صنيعته سلمه الله تعالى
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الحمد لله وسلام على عباده
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Multi-colored endbands. Blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants. Tooled edging and blind-stamped corner motifs. Blind-stamped mandorla on flap. Mandorlas outlined in gold. Blue marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers. In a case (253 x 162 x 28) of red leather and red marbled paper. Interior of case has a woven pull band.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 296
Institutional Information
- Collection
- 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/5a855f04-11d4-447c-b0f3-71281df2fe2f/manifest