Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 19H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

The ʻIrāqīyāt of al-Abīwardi, a poem dealing with al-ʻIrāq and containing youthful effusions and eulogies of ʻAbbāsid Caliphs and their ministers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. Title page is full of faded and overlapping inscriptions. MS comprises only a part of the complete poetical works of the author.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 70 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with double-red line between hemistitches.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (replacement folios only: coat-of-arms, three crescents and roman-alphabet letters "tre lune") ; MS in good condition, light staining. Folios 50, 51, 60, 61 and 70 are by a different hand and are a later replacement. Several folios have been mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أما بعد حمد الله على نعمة غناء المراد ومنحة متصلة الامداد ...
• Colophon: وقال يرثي الملك احمد بن ملکشاه رحمه الله. الموجود هنا مقدار نصف الديوان

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Blue paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

Signatures: Ismāʻīl al-Jamālī, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Zaʻīm[?] dated 1163 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 34.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7634.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3117.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 239.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420510

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