Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ibn Qaḍīb al-Bān, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad -1684 or 1685—Dālīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 81H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the Dālīyah Ode, a eulogy of the Prophet by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥijāzī, known as Ibn Qaḍīb al-Bān.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 48 + i ; catchwords ; folios numbered 95-146 in Hindi-Arabic numerals indicating that this text was likely part of a larger codex in the past ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; important words and verse separators in red ; MS in excellent condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Marginal notes and glosses. The present copy was written in the lifetime of the author and probably by him.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon authorship completed [1] Dhū al-Ḥijjah1149 and MS copied 1164 by its compiler.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: ووقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اربع وستين بعد المائة والالف. من هجرة من له العز والشرف على يد جامعه احقر الورى الراجي شفاعة من ولد في ام القرى صلى الله عليه وسلم. سنة 1164
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي نظم امور عباده فيما أراد

Binding note

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

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Bibliography of the Ode: Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8003⁷.
• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 278.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 128.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287096036

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