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. 93H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

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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