Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Badār al-Ṣaghīr, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad [Browse]

Related name

• بدار الصغير، علي بن احمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 57H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 71 + v ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Headings in red on first 2 folios ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 17-26 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 9 Jumādá II 1293 by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Badār al-Ṣaghīr (fol. 71a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تممت کتابة الديوان واخره في اول بدوامه. بمعونة الله المستعان. کتب هذا الديوان المبارك عبده علي بن احمدالشهير ببدار الصغير الشافعي مذهبا الشاذلي طريقة المکي الفاسي مشربا وتممه في يوم السبت عند وقت الزوال تاسع جمادى الثانية الذي هومن شهور عام ثلاثة وتسعين ومائتين والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف صلى الله عليه وعلى اله واصحابه وازواجه واحبابه ومن تبعهم الى يوم تظهر فيه التحف امين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وعليه توکلي ورجائي. قال رضي الله تعالى عنه

Binding note

Modern half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Spine damaged revealing advertisement for a cigar company in New York.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3208.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 733.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 237.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 87.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286282889

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