Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Asadī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar, active 12th century [Browse]

Related name

• اسدي، الحسين بن مضر، active 12th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poems on bravery in war.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر لو كنت .. مازن لم تسبح ابلي بنو اللقيطه ...
• Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسين بن مُضر ابن الحسين الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانين وخمسماية

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated [1] 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī[?] dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 9.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2.
• Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421796

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