Details

Subject(s)

• Muʻallaqāt—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Arabic poetry—To 622—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2H. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Zawzanī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, -1093 or 1094. Sharḥ al-Muʻallaqāt. [Browse]
• زوزني، حسين بن احمد. شرح المعلقات. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Muʻallaqāt al-Sabʻ, being an edited version of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī [d. 1093 or 4].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Two inscriptions on fol. 1a: two verses of poetry, and an acquisition note to the effect that the copy was obtained from Egypt, in Ṣafar 1291 [1874].
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 119 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page; fol. 1-20 frame-ruled in pencil.
• Description: Written in an informal medium small naskh in black ink; watermarks; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1 Rajab 1277 [1861] -- colophon (fol. 119a).
• Explicit: كان شاهد على ان الحرب قد بلغت غاية.
• Incipit: قال العبد المفتقر الي ربه المستغفر من ذنبه عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريم.

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown spotted paper.

Language note

In Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 35 (10).

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

174556445

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