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Subject(s)

• Nāṣir Aḥmad Sultan of Yemen -1424 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Sammān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān [Browse]

Related name

• سمان، محمد بن عبد الرحمن [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 61H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Original poems of eulogy, mostly to al-Malik al-Nāṣir of the Rasūlid dynasty of al-Yaman.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 ; catchwords ; foliation in red in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Title page and first page illuminated. Title page frame-ruled with gold and blue. Title page includes a headpiece in gold, dark brown, light blue surrounding the author's name. The first page of the text has a gold headpiece with blue and white decoration and gold and blue frame-ruling. Folio 2a has gold and blue frame; subsequent folios have a blue single-line frame. Codex irregularly alternates between white, yellow, and red paper.
• Description: Red, black and green headings throughout ; MS is rare ; MS in fair condition, many folios are worm-eaten with some mended.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue ; verse separators in red or green.
• Marginal notes. On folio 128 there is a ʻʻpoetical treeʼʼ in praise of al-Malik al-Nāṣir. MS of importance for the historical study of the Rasūlid period. The author occupied a teaching position in the Jihādīyah School at Taʻizz and in the Niẓāmīyah at Zabīd. He also acted as judge in the latter town.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 22 Shaʻbān 1000 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sammān (fol. 213b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا الديوان السعيد نهار الثلاثا ثاني عشرين شهر شعبان المبارك من السنة الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلام. وذلك بخط العبد الفقير الراجي عفوربه المنان محمد عبد الرحمن السمان عفى الله فهما آمين
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وعلمه البيان. والصلوة على رسوله

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Provenance

Ownership statements on title page, including one from ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shak[īr?] written in a decorative frame above the title. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 100.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286681408

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