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. 65H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Doublures (Binding) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

Twenty-nine pentastichs, each rhyming in a different letter of the Arabic alphabet; containing mostly advice and counsel of a religious nature.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Headings in red ; verse separators in red ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 5 lines per page with interlinear glosses.
• Marginal and interlinear glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1136 (fol. 16a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت القصيدة المخمسات في سنة سة [ست] وثلثين ومائة والف
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. تبارك ذوالعلى والکبرياء * تفرد بالجلال وبالبقاء

Binding note

Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Simple blind tooling line decoration on cover. Red paper doublures with gold block-pressed floral pattern.

Provenance

Title page has autograph of an owner (Ismāʻīl) and a seal impression with: ... ʻalá ... fī kull al-umūr tasʻad. A second ownernship statement mentions al-Sayyid al-Aḥmadī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 108.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

قصيدة المخمسات

Title from colophon

• Qaṣīdat al-Mukhammasāt

OCLC

1286684288

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