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. 76H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, elegy and felicitation.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 39 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Ms. codex.
• On the page following the colophon is a charm. Fol. 1a has a table of towns and sāʻah, place mostly in Turkey and Bulgaria. This appears to be the third dīwān missing from Princeton's Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 80H which carries the same ownership signatures.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Colophon: تم الديوان بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نحمدك اللهم ان اطلعت في سماء البلاغة شموساً

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper.

Provenance

On title page are two autographs of owners: Jaʻfar Muḥyī al-Qādirī dated 1219, and ʻAlī, Nāʼib al-Ḥaram dated [1]263. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7975/6.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3246/7².
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 237.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 118.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2325.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1091/2.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286914675

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