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. 30H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

The original poems of al-Shushtarī, mostly in praise of Muḥammad, together with some prayers.

Notes

• After the colophon is a statement that the present copy was prepared for Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣafadī. The leaf before the title page (fol. (1)a) appears to be a fragment of a legal document.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + (1) + 51 + (2) + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs present ; small motifs in red liberally sprinkled throughout the text ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 11 lines per page ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Jumaʻah 19 Ramaḍān 1219 (fol. 50b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a)
• Colophon: تم ديوان الششتري بعون الله وحسن توفيق [توفيقه] في نهار الجمعة 19 في رمضان سنة 1219
• Incipit: نستفتح بذکر رب العالمين ونصلي على امام المرسلين

Binding note

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

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7773/4.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 79.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285527939

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