Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 13H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +135 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red in early part of ms ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled ; first few folios frame-ruled in red.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On title page is the date and place of birth of author as mentioned by Ibn Khallikān. After colophon are several poems by Abū Tammām not included in the dīwān, a story about the author mentioned by Ibn Khallikān and two verses by al-Subkī. Name of copyist is obliterated.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied from 24 Shaʻbān to 24 Ramaḍān. Copyist's name obscured. (fol. 134a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم الکتاب المبارك يوم الاربعا عشرين من رمضان بعد مضي أربع ساعات وثلاثة عشر درجة وکان [الشر]وع في کتابته يوم الاربعا رابع [عشر]ين شعبان المعظم على يد [الفق]يرالى الله تعالى الباري ... الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا کريم. قال الاديب الشاعر المشهور ابوتمام حبيب ابن اوس الطائي.

Binding note

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

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• On the title page are autographs of several owners, one dated 1097 H. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7536.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 596.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 237.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 16.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285430964

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