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]
• Sprinkled papers [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

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

Notes

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

Binding note

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

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

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287097491

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