Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 89H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• holographs (autographs) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of two collections of original poems in eulogy of the Prophet arranged according to the letters of the alphabet not contained in the poems.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 63 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b with gold, blue and red ; ruled marginal lines in gold on first folio and in red and blue throughout ; important verses are in red.
• Description: Vowel signs ; headings in red ; MS in fair condition, some loose folios and partially detached binding.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled with separation between hemistitches.
• Ms. codex.
• On fol. 63b is a reference to another book by the same author. Inside upper cover has some calculations.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1160 by the author in Cairo.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من رقم هذا الديوان المبارك يوم الجمعة الانور ثامن ذي القعدة الحرام من سنة ستين ومائة والف على يد ناظمه الفقير عبد الله بن عبدالله المؤذن الادکاوي نزيل القاهرة. ختم بها وصلى الله تعالى على خير خلقة الله سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي اخرج من بحار افکار اولي الالباب

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold tooled line edging.

Provenance

On title page is the obscured autograph of Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad [al-Saqqāf]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 283.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3444.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 133.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287097902

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