Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Marṣafī, Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• مرصفي، محمد [Browse]
• ابن خالويه، حسين بن احمد، -980 or 981 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Compiler

• Ibn Khālawayh, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, -980 or 981 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems distinguished by a strongly personal tone. They are to a certain extent a diary of the authorʼs adventures.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal glosses and one marginal note on folio 61. It is evident from the introduction that Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālawayh collected this dīwān.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; in two columns with separation between hemistitches.
• Description: Rubricated ; blue paper ; MS in very good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-Marṣafī (fol. 72a).
• Incipit: وعلنه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وعليه اعتمادي. قال ابو عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن احمد بن خالوية ...
• Colophon: تم على يد کاتبه محمد المرصفي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الامي وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signature of al-Shaykh Ḥasanayn (fol. 72a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 31.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7580/1.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, 1298⁵.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425825

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