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. 91H [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 narrative, historical events and correspondence of the type called Muzdawijah.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 136 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• In the introduction the author explains this special type of poetry and states that putting stories and events into verse is very natural to the Persian tongue and is called Mathnawi, but that it is natural neither to the Arabic nor the Indian tongues. The book is divided into seven divisions, each called a daftar. On folio 131 and the five following folios are a short biography of the author and the story of the composition of the book. On the title page is a statement that the book was bought for 60 piasters.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with separation between hemistitches.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from label on case.
• Colophon: وهذه الرسالة الفائقة دالة على علو طبيعته ورشاقة صنيعته سلمه الله تعالى
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الحمد لله وسلام على عباده

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Multi-colored endbands. Blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants. Tooled edging and blind-stamped corner motifs. Blind-stamped mandorla on flap. Mandorlas outlined in gold. Blue marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers. In a case (253 x 162 x 28) of red leather and red marbled paper. Interior of case has a woven pull band.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Autograph of an owner, Muḥammad Shawqī Afandī, and his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 136.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287598335

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