• الجزؤ الاول من سيرة الحلبي
  • al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sīrat al-Ḥalabī

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H
Extent:
  • 2 volumes (266, 326) leaves : paper ; 206-211 x 142-155 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 205-214 x 155-163 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 266 + (1), (1) + 326 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper right hand corner ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Description: Rubricated ; important words underlined in red ; watermarks (grapes) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
  • Layout: 29 lines per page.
  • Marginal notes and glosses. After colophon in vol. 2 is a partially obscured inscription and a reading statement dated 25 Jumādá I 1193 [6/10/1779]. On a folio after the colophon is a statement about the Prophet, his virtues and his work.
  • Ms. codex.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied 1162 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Arīḥāwī, known as Shāriḥ al-Kanz (vol. 2, fol. 326a).
  • Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 1a).
  • Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اققر العباد واحوجهم الى عفو الکريم الجواد السيد احمد بن السيد محمد الادکاوي الشهير بشارح الکنز غفر الله لهما وللمسلمين وذلك في اليوم الرابع في شهر العاشر في العام الثاني والستين بعد الماية والالف والحمد لله وحده تم تم
  • Incipit: بسم الله ... حمد لمن نضر وجوه اهل الحديث
Publisher:
  • 1162 [1748 or 1749]
Subject:
  • Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Autographs
  • Blind tooled bindings
  • Stamps
  • Watermarks (Paper)
Date:
  • 1749
Author:
  • Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1567 or 1568-1635
Abstract:
  • A biography of the Prophet generally known as al-Sīrah al-Ḥalabīyah, compiled, as stated in the preface, from two previous works,ʻUyūn al-athar fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāʼil wa-al-siyar by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās 661-734 [1263-1334] and Subul al-hudá wa-al-rashād fī sīrat khayr al-ʻibād, known as al-Sīrah al-Shāmīyah, by Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Shāmī, 942 [1536].
Creator:
  • Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1567 or 1568-1635
  • نور الدين الحلبي، علي بن ابراهيم، 1567 or 1568-1635
Contributor:
  • شارح الكنز، احمد بن محمد، active 18th century
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H
Scribe:
  • Shāriḥ al-Kanz, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dct435gq16d
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Alternative:
  • Juzʼ al-thānī min Sīrat al-Ḥalabī
  • جزؤ الثاني من سيرة الحلبي
  • Insān al-ʻuyūn fī sīrat al-Amīn al-Maʼmūn
  • انسان العيون في سيرة الامين المأمون.
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9604-11.
  • Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 14.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 458/9.
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 655.
  • Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1274-6.
Binding note:
  • Type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Quires not sewn. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Each volume in a case (217 x 170 mm. and 216 x 160 mm.) of red leather with a pull strap bearing title and number of volume.
Provenance:
  • The title page of both volumes have the ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Sharīf Surūr, other obscured ownership signatures and a seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H
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