Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Ibn al-Maqrūn [Browse]

Related name

• ابن المقرون [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 17H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

The poems of Kushājim on various subjects, including an elegy on his mother, eulogies and satires, and the description of a school, of snow, of a horse, and of his stolen knife.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 3, 117 ; catchwords at end of quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Title page is illuminated and bears a gilded bookplate with the words: min kutub al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Talawī al-Khālidī. Title and medallion have text in silver ink surrounded by decoration in red, black, gold and blue.
• Description: Written in clear naskhi ; vowel signs ; MS is exceedingly rare ; MS is in good condition.
• Layout: 14 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied al-Sabt 29 Ṣafar 514 by Ibn al-Maqrūn (fol. 117a).
• Three folios before title page have a number of verses by ʻAlī ibn al-Ṣaqqār al-Māridīnī and a short paragraph by another about Kushājim. In upper left hand corner of title page is a statement that entire MS was written by Ibn al-Maqrūn the scribe. In upper right hand corner of title page is a statement that the manuscript contains 120 leaves from beginning to end.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم جميع شعر کشاجم والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي وآله الطاهرين الاخيار. وقع الفراغ منه في يوم السبت تاسع عشرين صفر من اربع عشرة وخمس مائة. کتبه ابن المقرون
• Incipit.: بسم الله الرحن الرحيم. قال ابوالفتح محمود ابن الحسين بن السندي بن شاهك الکاتب المعروف بکشاجم

Binding note

Later? type III binding (without flap) in brown leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla with pendants and decorative edging. Leather doublures with block-pressed design.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Folios 68, 70 and 77 bear a seal impression: "mulk Mawlay Luṭf ʻAbdullah Niʻmah." Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7584
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 625
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1071
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 23.
• Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist (1872), p. 139

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ديوان ابي الفتح المعروف بكشاجم.

Vocalized title at head of title page

• Dīwān Abī al-Fatḥ al-maʻrūf bi-Kashājim.

OCLC

1285528093

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