Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Binhādī, Ḥ̣asan ibn Sulaymān [Browse]

Related name

• بنهادي، حسن بن سليمان [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 79H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, and panegyrics, of various Persian governors under the reign of the Ṣafawid prince, Shāh Ṣafī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubrications ; verse separators, and sometimes line markings in red ; MS in very good condition, worm-eaten folios at beginning and end.
• Layout: 25 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• On page after colophon and the folio following are 22 verses by Ibn Maʻtūq, three verses of elegy by ʻAlī Khān lamenting the death of one of his grandsons, and a reply in six verses by the author of the dīwān.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 5 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1246 by Ḥ̣asan ibn Sulaymān ʻAbd Rabbih al-Binhādī (fol. 79a).
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: وستة واربعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى حسن بن المرحوم سليمان عبد ربه البنهاوي غفر الله تعالى لهما. آمين [sic] ووافق الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاربع [الاربعاء] المبارك خمسة ايام خلت من شهر الحجة ختام سنة الف وماتين ومائتين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة. قال الشيخ ابن معتوق يمدح

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Owner's name obscured on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8001/2.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 765.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV p. 248.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 122.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286913663

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