Details

Subject(s)

• Badawī, Aḥmad 1200?-1276—Poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 110H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

Autograph copy? of a collection of original poems in praise of Sayyidī Aḥmad al-Badawī 596-675 [1199/200-1276] together with a eulogy of the same saint by ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Nūr al-Aḥmadī and another by an unknown devotee (baʻḍ al-muḥibbīn).

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 + (5) + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Simple headpiece drawn in black and red ink.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents and "tre lvne") ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21-34 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• The final two folios bear a few verses of poetry, five illegible seal impressions and two fāʼidahs. Fol. 1a has a statement, signed by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad Tajjār and bearing his seal impression, that he read the contents of the MS and was very pleased with it. Folios 31 and 34 each has a tree of poetry. Text runs parallel with back of cover.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: مالي سواه مجب عندي وما * هذاك الى [الاّ] انه يدعى حسن
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. يا سيدي احمد يا بدوي يا قطب الرجال

Binding note

Later quarter-bound binding in oblong or safīnah format in brown leather and blue paper with orange and white block-stamped design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 137.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288001929

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