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. 82H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

Original poems on various subjects arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes and followed by some muwashshaḥāt.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fols. 88 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold with blue, gray and yellow floral designs.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in excellent condition, binding detached from text block.
• Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in gold with red lines separating hemistitches.
• Marginal notes by a later hand.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: تم الکتاب والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. هذا ما وجد من نظم الشيخ الفاضل خادم مدح النبي

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and grey marbled paper. Gold-speckled orange paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Title page bears two obliterated autographs of owner, one dated 1220. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7919.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3098³.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 774.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 245.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 106.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287097491

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