Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Marṣafī, Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• مرصفي، محمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 20H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems eulogizing the Sultan Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh, the Sultan Masʻūd, al-Malik Maḥmūd ibn al-Sulṭān Muḥammad, Majd-al-Mulk Abū al-Faḍl Asʻad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, Muʻīn-al-Mulk Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad Faḍlullāh and others, but especially Niẓām-al-Mulk,to whom he devotes a considerable part of his Dīwān; also contains satires and elegies, descriptions of nature, the skies and the stars, flowers and fruits, together with an elegy on the vicissitudes of time.

Notes

• Collation: Blue paper ; fol. i + 106 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-11 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in red.
• Marginal notes and glosses. Before the title page is a statement by the copyist, al-Marṣafī, that he collected this dīwān in response to the suggestion of the Imām. After the colophon are three folios which have several verses by al-Ṭughrāʼi. On the inside of the front cover is one verse.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-Marṣafī (fol. 103b).
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Colophon: انتهى ما وجد من ديوان الطغرائي على يد کاتبه محمد المرصفي غفرالله له ولوالديه بجاه النبي عليه السلام م
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد

Binding note

Later type II binding (with flap) in red leather and blue marbled paper. Binding has been mended.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 603.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 35.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285422903

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