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. 75H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of original poems of eulogy, travel, and prayer arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fols. i + 99 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; green flyleaves glued to initial and final folios of text block ; illegible title on lower edge of MS ; MS in good condition, paper cover is badly worn.
• Layout: 15-25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal glosses. Title page bears three verses of poetry by the author and quotations of poetry of unknown authorship. On page after colophon and on three following folios are a number of odes by the author not included in the dīwān, all bearing the date 1026 [1617].
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 27 Shawwāl 1027 (fol. 96a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a)
• Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وسلم ابداً في ليلة الاربعاء 27 شوال سنة 1027 ببرکة الحاج [الحج] ليلة سفر الرکب او صلهم الله سالمين وتقبلها بجاه سيد المرسلين صلى الله وسلم عليه وعليهم اجمعين.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Covers cut away to reveal blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on both covers. Cutaway on flap to reveal rounded blind-stamped design.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-Iṣbaḥī 1256, Ḥusayn al-Wafāʼī 1150, [name obscured] 1232 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7967.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3249.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 116.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286913511

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