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. 87H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems eulogizing the Prophet and his family, praising the Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī and other saints, and on love, all arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 51 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in fair naskhi ; vowel signs ; rubrication and other important text in red ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches ; fols. 1 and 2 frame-ruled in green and red.
• Marginal notes. On the title page occur several verses of poetry and a statement that ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Sunbul made an amplification (tashṭīr) of the dīwān. After the colophon occur a statement that ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Sunbul, mentioned before, made an amplification (tashṭīr) and some corrections; two verses of poetry written by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Asʻad; and some verses of poetry on two other folios.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 3 Rabī II 1178 by Muḥammad al-Khiḍr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī (fol. 49b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: والفراغ منه عصر يوم الاحد المبارك سنة 3 ربيع ثاني 1178 وانا الفقير الي الله تعالى الراجي عفوه وكرمه محمد الخضر بن الشيخ ابراهيم الرشيدي غفر الله لكلاتا من فضله وكرمه انه علي مايشاء قدير وبالاجابة حدي
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Title page has several obscured autographs of owners, dated 1185 and 1187 and a seal impression reading: Min al-mawlīyah Ibn al-Shadāyid ibn Yaḥyá ʻAbduh ʻAlī al-Anṣārī ʻAbbās al-Khazrajī [1]186. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 130.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287097623

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