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کتاب الوتريات ومعدن الانوارات في امداح النبي.
Kitāb al-Witrīyāt wa-maʻdin al-anwārāt fī amdāḥ al-Nabī.
1600-1899
Amplification (takhmīs) of the Witrīyah odes of Muḥammad al-Witrī al-Baghdādī in praise of the Prophet.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 38H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
Amplification (takhmīs) of the Witrīyah odes of Muḥammad al-Witrī al-Baghdādī in praise of the Prophet.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- کتاب الوتريات ومعدن الانوارات في امداح النبي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Witrīyāt wa-maʻdin al-anwārāt fī amdāḥ al-Nabī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 38H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmp48sq82b
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (1), 79 leaves : paper ; 205 x 135 (150 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 58.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7769/70.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2273.
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 706.
- Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 436₂.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from preface (fol. 2a).
- The folio before the title page has an introduction in Persian. Immediately after colophon appears the name of Abū Ḥanīfah with those of other imāms. On the four following folios is a biographical note about Abū Ḥanīfah entitled "Wa-min ṭabaqāt al-awliyā̕."
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 79 (folio 79 is attached to lower cover) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 13-15 lines per page.
- Description: Written in Fārisī and general script ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermark of roman-alphbet initials) ; MS in fair condition; stained with dampness affecting legibility near the end; last two folios defective.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في مدح النبي کتاب الوتريات صلي الله تعالي ... قال هذا كتاب الوبريات ومعدن الانوارات في امداح النبي ...
- Colophon: وذاك رجائي في الممات وفي المحيا
- Binding Note
- Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 166
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/308a5e14-15c2-481a-9dcd-b0640efcb02a/manifest