Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Writing—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic letters—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. 60H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Summary note

An iambic poem (urjūzah) on the art of writing, the kind of ink to be used, the pen, the way of writing various letters, rules of grammar and composition.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. A recipe for ink and a few stray inscriptions (fol. 1a). Diagrams utilizing circles to demonstrate how to write the letters of the alphabet (fol. 10b-12a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20-22 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition except for a few folios which are worm-eaten.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد والشکر لباري الامم * وخالق اللوح ومدري القلم ...
• Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه بخير امين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Ghānim al-ʻAqqād with his seal impressions; two obscured signatures (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 96.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425010

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