Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Anbābī, Manṣūr [Browse]

Related name

• انبابي، منصور [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 67H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy of the Prophet arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; separation between hemistitches ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Full vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses; interlinear notes. On the folio before the first is a title for the MS, added by a different hand. On two folios after the colophon are a poem by Miṣbāḥ al-Sakandari and a prayer by Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1079 by Manṣūr al-Anbābī (fol. 77b).
• Title from colophon (fol. 77b).
• Colophon: وقد تم الديوان المسمى بالدر المنظم في مدح الحبيب الاعظم في غاية شهر المحرم الحرام افتتاح عام تسعة وسبعين والف على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى رحمة الکريم الجواد الفقير منصور الانبابي بلدا الشافعي مذهبا غفرا الله له ذنوبه وستر في الدارين عيوبه ولطف به وبجميع المسلمين امين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة. قال فقير رحمة ربه

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. The flap is missing. Blind stamped with central mandorla and tooled edging. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Obliterated autograph of an owner (fol. (1)a. On the first folio is the autograph of an owner, ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Mahdī dated 1227. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 272.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 111.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2321.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

هذا ديوان عبد الرحمن بن احمد بن علي الحميدي

Title on later title page

• Hādhā Dīwān ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥamīdī

OCLC

1286687202

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