Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Qayyimʹzādah, Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafá, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• قيمزادة، حسن بن مصطفى، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 95H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. On the title page are two verses of poetry by Aḥmad Afandī al-Jāmī al-Madanī, and a note that the copying was begun 1227 [1812]. After the colophon is a circle whose center reads: ʻʻO ʻAlīʼʼ.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 32 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; written in two or more columns with red verse separator ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (figure? with roman-alphabet letters "...BRUZZO"; three crescents; sun; coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in good condition, but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 9 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1228 by Ḥasan ibn Muṣṭafá Qayyimʹzādah (fol. 132b).
• Incipit: يا رب حل بي التعب * وسطت علي يد النصب
• Colophon: وقد تم تحريرا على يد اسير شهواته مختوم هفواته من اخطا رشاده وخالف القادة حسن بن مصطفى قيم زادة لتسع ليال مضت من ربيع الاول عام الفتح الاعظم ورفع المدلهم الذي اهم ولم عام ثمان وعشرين من هجرة سيد المرسلين بعد الالف والماتين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Blue paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Obscured signature of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ... (fol. 1a) Tughrás at beginning and end of text. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 139.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424775

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