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کتاب امتاع البصر والقلب والسمع في شرح المعلقات السبع.
Kitāb Imtāʻ al-baṣar wa-al-qalb wa-al-samʻ fī sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.
1742-1744
Autograph commentary on the famous Seven Suspended Odes.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1H.
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Item Summary
Autograph commentary on the famous Seven Suspended Odes.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- کتاب امتاع البصر والقلب والسمع في شرح المعلقات السبع.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Imtāʻ al-baṣar wa-al-qalb wa-al-samʻ fī sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4q77g189h
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1742-1744
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 270, (1) leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (180 x 140) mm. bound to 226 x 170 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Two obscured seal impressions (fol. 1a). After the colophon is an autograph of an owner, Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad Amrīḥi al-Sharīf al-Zalabān. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 270 + (1) + 1 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in brown/black ; MS in fair condition, some leaves detached, binding partially detached, some leaves mended ; some smearing of text.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Ms. codex.
- On title-page occurs a charm in verse and some writing. On the page after the colophon is a table of genealogy; last folio has charms one of which is dated 1249 (1833/34) and one attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
- Origin: According to colophon begun 1 Muḥarram 1155 and completed 1 Safar 1157 by the author Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Faḍl al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṭabarī al-Malikī, Imam of the Maqam Abraham (fol. 269b-270a).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Title written on top edge barely legible, possibly: Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ.
- Colophon: حرره بقلمه تسويدًا الفقير الى الله الامام محمد ابن الامام علي بن الامام فضل الحسيني الشافعي الطبري المکي امام المقام الابراهيمي الملقب بالجمال الاخير عفا الله عنه ووالديه واحسن اليهما واليه والمسلمين آمين يا رب العالمين
- Incipit:. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله الذي رفع لواء المعلقات السبع على الاعناق
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous type II binding (with flap) of brown leather and plain glazed paper. In a case (223 x 170 mm.) of red leather with embossed covers and a top edge flap lined with marbled paper.
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- 573
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- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15584fda-7961-4891-a876-b2558dd37953/manifest