Details

Subject(s)

• God (Islam)—Love—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 59H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems almost entirely on Ṣūfī love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 47 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in fair condition, a number of folios are mended.
• Layout: 22 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 29 Ṣafar 888 (fol. 47b).
• Title supplied by cataloger; statement of responsibility from f. 1b.
• Colophon: تم الديوان المبارك بعون الله تعالى ومنه وهباته. وهذا يوم الاثنين يوم تسمة وعشرين في صفر سنة ثمان وثمانين وثمان مئة. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم ورضي الله تعالى عن ساداتنا اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال الشيخ الامام العلامة

Binding note

Later half-bound type III binding (without flaps) in red leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8016/7.
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 127.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285306196

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