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نظم الحاوي / للامام زين الدين عمر بن الوردي
Naẓm al-Ḥāwī / lil-Imām Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī.
1621
Versification of al-Ḥāwī al-ṣaghīr, a compendium of Shāfiʻī law (see al-Durar al-kāminah, III, 195). His master al-Bārizī is mentioned at beginning of text. The text is followed on fol. 148a by 9 lines of poetry attributed to al-Shāfiʻī written by the same hand as the main text.
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Versification of al-Ḥāwī al-ṣaghīr, a compendium of Shāfiʻī law (see al-Durar al-kāminah, III, 195). His master al-Bārizī is mentioned at beginning of text. The text is followed on fol. 148a by 9 lines of poetry attributed to al-Shāfiʻī written by the same hand as the main text.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- نظم الحاوي / للامام زين الدين عمر بن الوردي
- Transliterated Title
- Naẓm al-Ḥāwī / lil-Imām Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 213Bq
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc73666j68d
- Publisher
- [1621]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1621
- Extent
- 149 leaves: paper ; 295 x 210 (225 x 115) mm. bound to 295 x 210 mm.
- Provenance
- Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Jaʻfar Ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Ibn al-Sayyid ʻAlī Burhān al-Dīn al-Dasūqī al-Shāfiʻī al-Biqāʻī. Acquired from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 83
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 141/10
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Incipit Shiʻr lil-Shāfiʻī (fol. 148a): اقول لها والعيس قد جدّ في السرا اعدّ لفقدي ما استطعت من الصبر
- Title from rubric on fol. 1b.
- Physical description: 18 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh, in black ink with use of red and blue for headings and re-inking; marks consisting of three red or blue dots at beginning, centre, and end of each line; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. European paper; glossy; frame-ruled. Occasional marginal annotation. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and the copy of a letter from Medina ("ṣūrat maktūb warada min al-Madīnah al-munawwarah min baʻḍ al-fuḍalāʼ wa-li-baʻḍ al-ahsrāf"). Fol. 149: Blank. Stained with water ; blue and red ink washed off on some leaves; some insect damage on lower edge.
- Collation: Paper, fol. 149 ; 1-14¹⁰ 15⁸ (+1 at end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
- Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 17 Shawwāl 1030 [Sept. 4, 1621] (fol. 147b).
- Incipit: قال الفقير عمر بن الوردي الحمد لله اتم الحمد وافضل الصلاة للانجاب محمد والال والاصحاب وبعد فالعلم عظيم المنزلة قد اصطفى الله خيار الخلق له
- Explicit: وكل من احببت او احبني فيك وكل مؤمن ومؤمّن والحمد لله جزيل الفضل ثم على نبيه اصلّي والال والصحب بهذا اختم نطمي والله تعالى اعلم
- Binding Note
- Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Central blind-stamped mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets. Marbled paper pastedowns.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 154
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/005c349a-2519-4537-82a2-19c7cb036c33/manifest