Details

Subject(s)

• Malik al-Manṣūr, Najm al-Dīn Ghāzī -1312—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Mudawwar, Niqūlā, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• مدور، نقولا، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 54H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā, 1278- Durar al-nuḥūr fī imtidāḥ al-Malik al-Manṣūr. [Browse]
• حلي، صفي الدين عبد العزيز بن سرايا، -1278 درر النحور في امتداح الملك المنصور. [Browse]

Summary note

Two poetry collections by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 438, i ; catchwords ; pagination in ink and pencil using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: [Dīwān] Copied 13 Tammūz 1852 by Niqūlā Mudawwar (fol. 403b)
• Incipit: [ديوان] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي علم الانسان البيان ومن عليه ... وبعد فانى كنت قبل ان اشب عن الطوق -- [کتاب درر النحور] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ... قافية الالف. قال رحمه الله. ابت الوصال مخافة الرقباء
• Colophon: [ديوان] تم الديوان بعناية الرب القدير المنّان بيد کاتبه وذلك في 13 تموز سنة 1852 وهوبرسم مالکه لنفسه الخواجه نقولا مدوّر. تم -- [کتاب درر النحور] قد تمت القصايد الارتقيات ولله المجد لا يتم في الارضون والسموات. م

Binding note

Unbound. Sewn.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-403b: Kitāb Dīwān / Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā ibn Abī al-Qasim al-Ḥillī al-Tanbasī. A collection of original poems divided into 12 divisions: (1) Of boasting, bravery in war and inspiration to leadership, (2) of eulogy, thanksgiving and felicitation, (3) on hunting and description, (4) on brotherhood and correspondence, (5) of elegy and condolence, (6) on love, (7) on wine, (8) of complaint, (9) on gifts, (10) on paradoxes, (11) anecdotes and satire, (12) on literature and asceticism.
• 2. fol. 404b-438a: Hādhā Kitāb Durar al-nuḥūd fī imtidāḥ al-Malik al-Manṣūr / lil-Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī. A collection of original poems of eulogy of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Abū al-Fatḥ Ghāzī al-Urtuqī, who reigned 693-712 [1293/4-1312], arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 84, 85.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 248/9; IV, p. 291
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7851-3.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3205; 3953⁴.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1085.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2300.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 498¹; 498².

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Durar al-nuḥūr fī imtidāḥ al-Malik al-Manṣūr.
• كتاب درر النحور في امتداح الملك المنصور.

OCLC

1354014750

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