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. 94H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems of eulogy, prayer, correspondence and love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 270 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Verse separators in red ; MS in good condition, but several folios are worm-eaten. Cover and quires are detached. Cover in poor condition.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes; some verses in red. Though the name of the author does not appear in full on the title page it appears in the poems and the correspondence. On the first folio are three verses of poetry by Aḥmad al-Jāmī al-Madanī. Fol. 270b has kabīkaj (invocation against bookworks).
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: واسلم ودم اهلا لدفع ملمة * وعلى يديك عسى خلاص نفاسها
• Incipit: يا رب حل بي التعب * وسطت علي يد النصب

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative tooled edging. Edging on flap and small stamped motifs on flap connector.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 138.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287778710

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