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. 69H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

Incomplete collection of original poems of eulogy and satire, elegies and poems of love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 79 ; catchwords ; foliated in black ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b with gilt frame.
• Description: Rubricated ; poems are numbered ; MS in good condition but several folios worm-eaten and mended. Probably a folio after the first is lost; the folios are numbered 84, while they count only 79. It is evident that some folios are lost at the end.
• Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled.
• Marginal notes; marginal and interlinear glosses. On the title page are defaced autographs of several owners, two verses of poetry and some additional markings.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: وقال ايضا
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل منصب الادب ارفع المناصب

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind stamped with lobed centerpiece with pendants and decorative tooled edging on both covers and flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7956.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 641.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 112.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1660.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286687289

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