Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
هذا تاريخ حصار الافرنج لعكة المحروسة وحصول النصر عليهم / لمولانا محمد بدير افندي.
Hādhā Tārīkh ḥiṣār al-Ifranj li-ʻAkkah al-maḥrūsah wa-ḥuṣūl al-naṣr ʻalayhim / li-Mawlānā Muḥammad Badīr Afandī.
1800-1899
An account of the siege of Acre by Napoleon and his subsequent defeat, eulogizing at the same time Aḥmad Pāshā [al-Jazzār] 1132-1219 [1719/20-1804/5], the governor of Acre. The author refers to Napoleon as "Bartī" (Bonaparte) and makes plays on the words. Reference is also made to Gaza and the siding of its inhabitants with Napoleon.
Collection
Part of
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
Metadata
View all metadata for this item
Similar Items in this Collection
Similar Items outside this Collection
Item Summary
An account of the siege of Acre by Napoleon and his subsequent defeat, eulogizing at the same time Aḥmad Pāshā [al-Jazzār] 1132-1219 [1719/20-1804/5], the governor of Acre. The author refers to Napoleon as "Bartī" (Bonaparte) and makes plays on the words. Reference is also made to Gaza and the siding of its inhabitants with Napoleon.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا تاريخ حصار الافرنج لعكة المحروسة وحصول النصر عليهم / لمولانا محمد بدير افندي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Tārīkh ḥiṣār al-Ifranj li-ʻAkkah al-maḥrūsah wa-ḥuṣūl al-naṣr ʻalayhim / li-Mawlānā Muḥammad Badīr Afandī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 96H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/37720p333
- Publisher
- [18--]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 4 leaves : paper ; 162 x 111 (125 x 87) mm. bound to 164 x 115 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 623.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Full vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from heading (fol. 1b).
- Colophon: واله منهم هذا الوزير کفى ان عمنا الله من افضاله الخيرا. تمت بحمد الله وعونه تم
- Incipit: الله اکبر دين الله قد نصرا * بنصراحمد باشا سيد الوزراء
- Binding Note
- Covered in blue paper with pastedowns taken from the leaves of an army log book.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 16
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1211e20c-24bf-4441-890b-c3cf951f893a/manifest