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هذا النصف من العقد الفريد/ لابن عبد ربه.
Hādhā al-nisf̣ min al-ʻIqd al-farīd / li-Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih.
1757
A copy of the author's famous collection of anecdotes and poems.
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- Publisher
- 16 Shaʻbān 1170 [May 6, 1757?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Third series no. 61.
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A copy of the author's famous collection of anecdotes and poems.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا النصف من العقد الفريد/ لابن عبد ربه.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā al-nisf̣ min al-ʻIqd al-farīd / li-Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 61
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchd76sd90d
- Publisher
- 16 Shaʻbān 1170 [May 6, 1757?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1757
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 315 leaves : paper ; 266 x 187 (198 x 120) mm bound to 266 x 190 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: ʻAbd Allāh al-Marādī (fol. 1a). 414701. Gift of Mrs. William C. Osborn, Charles Scribner, '75, David Paton, '74, et al.
- 414701. Gift of Mrs. William C. Osborn, Charles Scribner, '75, David Paton, '74, et al.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a)
- Inscriptions (upper pastedown, fol. 1a). Upper flyleaf has: "Ibn ʻAbd Rabbihi, al-ʻIqd al-farīd. Ms dated 1170 (A.D. 1757)." Title also on lower edge of text block.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 315 + i ; quires signed: 2-32 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red ; opening spread frame-ruled in red and gold (fol. 1b-2a).
- Description: Overlining and other use of red ; written in two hands ; watermarks (later endpapers: "al vivo in Toscana" and "Conte Alessandro Cervini"; text: fleur-de-lis?, other unidentified, roman-alphabet lettering "..ucan.. ae ou .. ed" with date 1749; grapes with crown) ; MS in very good condition.
- Origin: According to the colophon copied Thursday 16 Shaʻbān 1170 (fol. 315b)
- Explicit:ولو ان النساغنين يوما عن المسلك الذكى كما غنيت لا صبح كل عطار فقير قليلا ما له ما يستبيت.
- Colophon:تم الكتاب المبارك بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه وذلك نهار الخميس لست عشرة ليلة حلت من شعبان من شهور سنة الف وماية وسبعين من الهجرة لنبوية على مشرفها افضل صلاة وسلام وكل تحية والحمد لله رب العالمين.
- Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. نسب عثمان رضي الله عنه هو عثمان بن عفان بن ابى العاص بن امية ...
- Binding Note
- Later type II (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped oblong design and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 634
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e80cc25a-6036-4308-87ee-7aec030ac0fd/manifest