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. 22H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• magic squares [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and love.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 2b).
• Marginal notes. On folios 1a and 2a are some numerical charms and magic squares. Surrounding the text on folios 2b, 3a, and on folio 143b are some medical prescriptions. After colophon (fol. 125b) 18 folios are added which have poems of al-Qāḍī al-Bayāḍī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn, Ibn al-ʻArabī, Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqrī, ʻUmar ibn Yaʻqūb al-Anbārī and others. Title also appears on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 144 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (text: three crescents; later endpaper: crest with roman-alphabet letters "GM") ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصوة على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين وبعد فهذا ديوان ابى اسحق ابرهيم بن يحيى بن عثمان بن محمد ...
• Colophon: وهذه ما وجدناه من مسوداته واما باقي المسودات انتحلها صاحب له وسافر الى بلاد الشرق وامتدح بها ملوکها وقد وجدنا قصيدة مهموزة نثبتها ها هنا اذ لم نقع على شيء من شعره وهي ما قال. يقول

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and purple-red textured paper. Multi-colored endbands. Text block is separated from cover.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʻUqayl (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 38.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 242, 299.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7680.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3126.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423112

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