Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Sakhāwī, ʻAlī ibn Tāj al-Dīn, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• سخاوي، علي بن تاج الدين، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 32H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems arranged in alphabetic order of their rhyme and mostly in praise of the Ayyūbid princes under whose patronage the poet flourished.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses in black and red. The elegy on folios 26 and 27, composed on the death of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Abū al-Fatḥ Ghāzī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīnʼs (Saladin) son, appears in Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, pp. 135-7. MS begins with statement that the poetical works of the author were collected and arranged by his friend and admirer Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Qaylawī, because the author paid little attention to the collection of his works. MS is of very special historical importance in study of Ayyūbid period.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; partially foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet countermark "BB" with clover in between) ; MS in fair condition, some damage affecting legibility.
• Decoration: Title page all in red ink with circle and frame line drawing. Illuminated headpiece of red, blue, white, pink, green, blue and gold in a floral design on fol. 1b.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday [illegible] 1099 by ʻAlī ibn Tāj al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (fol. 258b).
• Incipit: قال العبد الفقير الى رحمة ربّه القدير حسن بن محمد القيلوي غفر الله له اما بعد حمد لله الذي تفرد بالبقا وقهز الخلق بالفنا ...
• Colophon: تم الديوان بحمد الله تم ... الفقير علي بن تاج الدين السخاوي الحنفي عفى الله عنه وعن والديه والمسلمين آمين. وصلى ... وآله وصحبه وسلّم وکا ... نساخته في ليلة الاربعاء ... من شهور سنة الف وتسع وتسعين من الهجرة على مشرفها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله اوّلا وآخرا فبفضله تتم الصالحات

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in golden brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Spine and flap connector in red leather. Not currently sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 43.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Dīwān shiʻr
• ديوان شعر

OCLC

1340425082

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