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Subject(s)

• Arabic literature—1258-1800 [Browse]
• Ethiopians—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• National characteristics, Ethiopian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Ethiopia—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 193H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise in verse and prose on the eminence of the Ethiopians (Abyssinians, Ḥubūsh).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 62a).
• On fol. 1a: folio count, ownership statement and seal impression. The same seal impression appears at the beginning of each quire and on fol. 2a. There is another seal impression on fol. 2a and 62b.
• Collation : Paper ; fol. 62 ; 1-5¹⁰ 6¹² ; horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks.
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان من صلصال من حماء مسنون وفضل بعضه علي بعض فهم بذلك يتفارقون ... [2ب] وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... خطر لي في هذه الايام الشريفة والاوقات الرايقة.
• Explicit: ويتم بهجتي لكن بشرط وكان(؟) الشطر اخره سلامه تم.

Binding note

• Type II (with flap) binding in red leather with green paper with a painted red and black floral motif .
• Green paper with a painted red and black floral motif pasted on leather over paper pasteboards for the upper and lower covers and envelope flap.

Provenance

On fol. 1a: ownership statement and seal. The same seal appears at the beginning of each quire and on fol. 2a. There is another seal on fol. 2a and 62b. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

• Purchase ; Brill ; 1900.
• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 604
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 385/2
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 519/2

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction. Please contact the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at rbsc@princeton.edu for further information.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh
• كتاب الطراز المنقوش في محاسن الحبوش

OCLC

68906260

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