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. 90H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph collection of original poems of eulogy, satire, elegy, love and in description of nature. Incomplete at the end.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 106 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 18-23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to title page copied [1] Muḥarram 1185 by the author (fol. 1a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: قد اوقعتك به رغمًا معاصيکا
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانهّ وهو حسبي وکفى. الحمد لله الذي جعل الادب وسيلة

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Signatures of Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Qalamī al-Ḥanafī al-Dimashqī al-Aḥmadī and ʻUthmān al-Bahnasī ibn Ḥasan Afandī al-Bahnasī ibn ʻUthmān Afandī al-Bahnasī dated 1177; two reading/reviewing statements, one obscured, one for Ḥasan ibn ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá [al-Bahnasī], a son of the author dated 1270; ijāzah in the name of Muḥammad Afandī; and a seal impression with the name " ... ʻUthmān al-Bahnasi" (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 134.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ديوان فضل الله البهنسي

Title on top edge

• Dīwān Faḍl Allāh al-Bahnasī

OCLC

1287097987

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