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. 77H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

Original poems of eulogy, correspondence and riddles.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fols. 35 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, most pages repaired at the top, incomplete at end.
• Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.
• Ms. codex.
• On folio before title page are two verses by Amīn al-Muḥibbī 1061-1111 (1650/1-1699) and two well-known wisdom verses which begin: saʼaltu al-nās ʻan khill wafī. Page after the ending and folio following have several verses of unknown authorship.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Ending: بوعد رأينا في جوانبه المطلا
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper.

Provenance

Title page has several ownership statements: al-Sayyid Sulaymān 1151, and Muṣṭafá. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7987/8.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 634,
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 121.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286913669

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