A collection of original poems of eulogy, elegy, prayer, correspondence and love.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 243 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ("G.E.B." and three crescent moons) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and a few stained with dampness. MS may never have been sewn, quires and binding are all loose.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with red markings between hemistitches.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataoger.
Ending: والشفيع فينا المحبوب النبي الحسيب. وله ايضا
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. احمد من اتى محمدا جوامع الکلم
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative tooled edging. Mandorla and edging on flap.
Provenance
On fol. 1a are the autograph of an owner ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Nāʼib bi-Ḥaram al-Makkī and his seal impression reading: "The one who is sure of the goodness of the Generous One, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, the caretaker of the ḥaram". Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 132.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1287598668
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