Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Durr al-nafīs fī uns al-ẓāʻin wa-al-jalīs
الدر النفيس في انس الظاعن والجليس

Authors

• Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823
  واقدي، محمد بن عمر،
• Maʻāfirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 950 or 951-1038
  طلمنكي، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Ibn Arkin Muḥammad al-Mūnib, active 1778, scribe
  ابن اركن محمد المونب،
• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 29-201-710
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977565350003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111578786
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/29_201_710.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1192 A.H. (1778)

Place

Morocco?

Summary

In the introduction, the author says that this is a retelling of the conquest of Syria and Iraq (Futūḥ al-Shām wa-al-ʻIrāq). The author states that 'the people of this time of ours' (ahl zamāninā hādhā) like reading conquest literature, so he has borrowed from the futūḥ works of both Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭalamankī [al-Maʻāfirī] and Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Wāqidī and produced his own volume.

Notes

• Title from introduction (p. 1)
   
• Pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, upper outer corners (1-32), pagination in ink in Arabic numerals upper, outer margin (1-10); sequence continued in modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (33-508); catchwords every verso, lower left.
   
• Incipit: wa-baʻd fa-innī raʼaytu ahl zamāninā hādhā mūlaʻīn bi-kutub al-jihād rāghibīn fī samāʻ akhbār futūḥ al-bilād.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 303 x 195 (210 x 125) mm bound to 303 x 210 mm.
   
• Watermarked European paper: Large central fleur-de-lis with crown, diagonal stripe, and oval pendant with initials AP or BG centered underneath.
   

Extent

1 online resource (i, 255, i, paginated leaves)

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandola and blind tooled and stamped frames; the fore-edge hinge and spine have been reinforced with red leather.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red, heavier brown, and occasionally green.

Script

Written in maghribī in dark brown ink; pointed, occasionally vocalized.

Provenance

• Acquired during the Expedition in Morocco by Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898.
   

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — al-Durr al-nafīs fī uns al-ẓāʻin wa-al-jalīs