Sīrah al-Ḥalabīyah
- Holding institution:
- Princeton University Library
- Data provider:
- Princeton University Library
- Title:
- Sīrah al-Ḥalabīyah
- Creator:
- Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1567 or 1568-1635
- Date:
- 1700-1799
- Description:
- Copied A.H. 1162 A.D. 1749 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Idkāwī, known as Shāriḥ al-Kanz.Fols. 592; vol. I, 21.3 x 15.5 cm., vol. II, 20.6 x 14.2 cm.; written surface 16 x 10.5 cm.; 29 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.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 A.H. 661-734 A.D. 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, A.H. 942 A.D. 1536.Beg.: بسم الله ... حمد لمن نضّر وجوه اهل الحدىثColophon: وقد تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على ىد اققر العباد واحوجهم الى عفو الکرىم الجواد السىد احمد بن السىد محمد الادکاوي الشهىر بشارح الکنز غفر الله لهما وللمسلمىن وذلك في الىوم الرابع في شهر العاشر في العام الثاني والستىن بعد الماىة والالف والحمد لله وحده تم تمMarginal notes and glosses; important words underlined in red. On a folio after the colophon is a statement about the Prophet, his virtues and his work. MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten; Arabic binding with flap; blind stamped and tooling on cover and flap; each volume in a case bearing title and number of volume.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 458/9; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 14; Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1274-6; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9604-11.Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1292, 1308.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- Biography
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Rights:
- https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services
- Identifier:
- ark:/88435/dct435gq16d
- Is part of:
- Middle East Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts