Item Summary

A commentary on the Dālīyah Ode, a eulogy of the Prophet by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥijāzī, known as Ibn Qaḍīb al-Bān.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الكتاب شرح للقصيدة الدالية.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Kitāb Sharḥ lil-Qaṣīdah al-Dālīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 81H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zg64tw50g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1751
Extent
48 leaves : paper ; 220 x 167 (170 x 104) mm. bound to 225 x 175 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Bibliography of the Ode: Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8003⁷.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 278.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 128.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 48 + i ; catchwords ; folios numbered 95-146 in Hindi-Arabic numerals indicating that this text was likely part of a larger codex in the past ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; important words and verse separators in red ; MS in excellent condition.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes and glosses. The present copy was written in the lifetime of the author and probably by him.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon authorship completed [1] Dhū al-Ḥijjah1149 and MS copied 1164 by its compiler.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: ووقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اربع وستين بعد المائة والالف. من هجرة من له العز والشرف على يد جامعه احقر الورى الراجي شفاعة من ولد في ام القرى صلى الله عليه وسلم. سنة 1164
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي نظم امور عباده فيما أراد
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and brown spotted paper. Brown pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

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/701b7b6d-782f-46f5-a885-946797c85038/manifest