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. 55H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poems in the form of letters to and from the author, arranged according to the alphabetical order of the names of the persons who wrote to the author and to whom the author replied.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 321 + 1 ; catchwords ; pagination in red ink using Hindi-Arabic numerals ; quires signed 1-32 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS is in good condition and very neat ; MS is rare.
• Layout: 20-22 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page are four verses of poetry by a transcriber, Ramaḍān al-ʻAṭīfī. On four folios before the title page is an index of the names in the MS; following is a statement to the effect that MS was written at the request and at the expense of Aḥmad Wihbi [Wahbah], a bookseller in Ḥalab. He also collated the MS himself.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 19 Muḥarram 1305 by Muḥammad ʻAbd [al-ʻAzīz ibn/al-Mardīn] Muḥammad Rāghib (fol. 321a).
• Title from title page (fol. 5a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه يوم الخميس التاسع عشر محرم الحرام سنة خمس وثلثماية والف على يد افقر الورى الراجي عفوربه العزيز الواهب محمد عبدالعزيز بن محمد راغب کان الله عونا لهما في الدارين بجاه سيد الکونين والمسلمين اجمعين امين امين امين.م
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل البادي اميرًا

Binding note

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

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8631.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 380.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2067.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 326.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 88.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1016.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286281139

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