Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• God (Islam)—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. 37H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A collection of original poems in praise of Allah and the Prophet; a dhikr.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 74 + xxvi ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Verse separators in red ; 26 blank folios after the text, followed by a final folio with stray marks on the verso ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• On the page after the colophon are three verses of poetry. On three folios following occur several verses. On the last folio the verses are written one hemistich in red, the other in black.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وفي الحقيقة الله الله بالفتح قد حل السعود
• Incipit: حجاز. نستفتح بذکر رب العالمين ونصلي على امام المرسلين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II binding (with flap) in light brown leather and floral patterned paper. Endbands.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• On the title page is the autograph of an owner, Tawfīq Afandī [?]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 57.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285974981

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