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Title

Kitāb Naẓm al-durar al-sanīyah fī al-siyar al-zakīyah /
كتاب نظم الدرر السنية في السير الزكية

Authors

• ʻIrāqī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1325-1404
  عراقي، عبد الرحيم بن الحسين

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3520Y
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4794862
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr76f3451

Publisher

Princeton University

Origin

Date

before 1389

Summary

Autograph copy of a biography of the Prophet Muḥammad in 1000 rajaz verses (GAL).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
   
• 13 to 16 lines per page. Written in large casual naskh in thick black ink with use of red for decorations and re-inking. Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines (grouped by two and three) visible. Fol. 18-19 are later replacements (light cream glazed paper with chain and laid lines visible). Some words are crossed out with a later version in the margin (see fol. 13a). On fol. (i)a: Ownership statements with seals; waqf mention; inscriptions. On fol. 1a: Title; long note (almost illegible); ownership statements; waqf. Several reading statements in the margin of fol. 4a, 6a, etc. On fol. 37b-40b: Several audition certificates (samāʻ) by the author's hand, the last dated 12 Dhū al-Ḥujjah 791 H. [1389]. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
   
• Autograph, al-Madīnah (colophon, fol. 37b).
   

Extent

I, 40 leaves : 213 x 158 (143 x 98) mm. bound to 215 x 167 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly richly blind- and gold-tooled with a central roundel with geometrical motifs and an elaborate outer frame. The envelope flap has a portion of the same frame, with a roundel on its pointe. Embossed leather doublure.

Provenance

• Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ;
   
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
   

Subjects topical

• Muḥammad,--Prophet,---632--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Arabic poetry--14th century
• Islamic poetry, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New Jersey--Princeton

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--Saudi Arabia--Medina--14th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century

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