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. 92H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, history and love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 113 + i ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; hemistitch separations and line endings marked in red.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On folios 34b-35b are three tree diagrams of poetry. Some verses are in red. On the two folios before the title page occur a table of contents of the book, six verses of poetry, and an obliterated autograph of an owner. On fol. 3a also occur several verses of poetry.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption in upper corner of fol. 3a.
• Colophon: تم الديوان المبارك ولله الحمد والمنة اولا واخرا ظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين على امور الدنيا والدين. الحمد لله الذي اطلع بدر الادب

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Multi-colored endbands. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers. Blind-stamped motif on flap. Decorative tooled edging.

Provenance

On fol. 1a and fol. 3a are repeated the autograph of an owner ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kharrāz along with his seal impression with the text "ʻĪsá ʻAbduh" and in the center and around the name: "Allāh is my sufficiency and He is the best trustee". Acquired form Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 131.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ديوان بدر الدين خوج

Title on top edge

• Dīwān Badr al-Dīn Khūj

OCLC

1287598597

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