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Subject(s)

• Caliphs—Biography—15th century [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—Kings and rulers—Biography—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the first Caliphs. The text is followed on fol. 192b-197a by a qaṣīdah by the author and several fāʼidah written by the same hand as the main text, the last one from Suyūṭī's disciple al-Nāmirī al-Ḥanafī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from note by a later hand on fol. 1a.
• 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. From fol. 115 on, black ink only. European paper with watermark. Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on fol. 1a (repeated in red pencil on fol. 1a): "137Y".
• Copy completed 13 Ṣafar 985 [May 2, 1577] ʻAlī ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻIrāq al-Kinānī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 197a).
• Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله الذي وعد فوفي واوعد فعفي والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد الشرفا ومسود الخلفا وعلى اله وصحبه اهل المكارم والوفا فهذا تاريخ لطيف ترجمت فيه الخلفا امرا المومنين القايمين بامر الامة من عهد ابي بكر الصديق الى عهدنا هذا على ترتيب زمانهم الاول فالاول
• Explicit: قال الفقير جرامرد النامري الحنفي تلميذ المولف رحمه الله لا اشك ولا ارتاب ان فتنة المايه التاسعه هي فتنه ابن عثمان سليمن شاه وخروبه مع اخوته ... [197أ] ... والعمل بوظايف دينك القويم ووفقه اللهم للشفقة على الرعية والرفق بهم والاعتنا بمصالحهم واصلح اللهم ساير ولاة امور المسلمين امين

Binding note

Upper cover modern replacement. Lower cover, fore-edge flap and envelope flap in golden brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind stamped central mandorla

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of ...? Aḥmad al-Sāmī al-Ṣāliḥī al-Madanī ; ... Shaykhzāde Yaʻqūb ibn Aḥmad al-..., dated 1040 H. ; Muḥammad Saʻīd Ibn ramaḍān Ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Ismāʻīl Ibn ʻIbāduh? al-QRḌī, dated 1148 H. ; etc. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4409
• Khāzindār, A, and M. al-Shaybānī. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1983), 742

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

123441382

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