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. 14H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy and satire, and on wine, love and asceticism, arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 158 + (1) + iv ; iv + 194 + (1) + iv; iv + (1) + 154 + (3) + iv; iv + (1) + 213 +(2) + iv ; catchwords ; quires signed volume 1: 2-16, volume 2: 2-21, volume 3: 2-19, volume 4: 2-22 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS very neat and in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon, volume 1 (v. 1, fol. 158a).
• Colophon, volume IV: تم الديوان بعون الملك المنان والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
• Incipit, volume I: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال علي بن العباس بن جريج الرومي

Binding note

Later half-bound western binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Contents

• Vol. I, fols. 158: hamzah-kh
• vol. II, vols. 204: d-s
• vol. III, fols. 154: sh-k
• vol. IV, fols. 213: l-h.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 610.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 277
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 233
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 19.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 41

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285320726

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