Item Summary

A commentary on the famous Zaynabīyah ode, attributed to the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, abridged from the commentaries of al-Simallāwi and others.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح يسمى بالبهجة السنية على القصيدة المسماه بالزينبية / للشيخ علي بن المقري
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ yusammá bi-al-Bahjah al-sanīyah ʻalá al-qaṣīdah al-musammāh bi-al-Zaynabīyah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn al-Muqrī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 12H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qf85nm832
Publisher
12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1276 [July 1, 1860]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1860
Format
Manuscript
Extent
77 leaves : paper ; 235 x 162 (160 x 95) mm. bound to x 242 x 173 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 15.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 77 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. On title page are a charm and a Coptic calendar. After colophon is a note stating that this copy was compared with others belonging to ʻAbd al-Hādī Mūsá, a proof reader in Būlāq Printing Press, 1300 (1882/83) and found to be in exact agreement. On folio after colophon are several poems on love.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied al-Aḥad 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1276 by Muḥammad ibn Salāmah ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-Shāfiʻī [surnamed al-Wāʻiẓ] (fol. 76b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابتها يوم الاحد المبارك ثاني عشر ذي الحجة الذي هو من شهور عام سنة ستة وسبعين ومايتين والف من هجرة من له المجد والشرف صلى الله عليه وسلم. على يد الفقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير المحتاج الى عفو ربه القدير محمد ابن سلامة بن عبد الخالق الشافعي غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه ولمن نظر فيه ودعي [ودعا] لهم بالمغفرة ولکافة المسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين کلما ذکره الذاکرون وغفل عن ذکره الغافلون صلاة وسلاما الى يوم الدين. تم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل زينة للعباد
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Qaṣīdah al-Zaynabīyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
172

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/eed2e9e2-9e57-497d-a2a5-a7903d4eb258/manifest