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. 31H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems eulogizing Abū al-Fatḥ Mūsá son of the Sultan al-Malik al-ʻĀdil, the Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh, al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb and others.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 50 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 17 lines per page with separation between the hemistitches ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On title page are autographs of several owners, a statement of appraisal of the book and two verses of love poetry. After colophon are 13 verses of poetry in another hand.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم ديوان القاضي کمال الدين بن النبيه رحمه الله تعالى وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما امين
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي بث ارواح العقول في اجساد الصور

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7704-8.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1297.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 608.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 344/5.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 42.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1067.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285974076

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