Details

Subject(s)

• Maqqarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad -1631 or 1632—Maqqarīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 73H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a commentary on the ode of al-Maqqarī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 105 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 28 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On title page and on two following pages are several verses of poetry and other inscriptions. After colophon and on two following folios are several verses of poetry. On inside of both covers are several verses on love.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday, two days remaining in Rabīʻ I, 1236 (fol. 103b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من جمعه ظهر يوم الخميس المبارك لثنتين بقيتا من شهر ربيع الاول احد شهور سنة ستة وثلاثين ومايتين والف احسن الله ختامها امين امين بجاه محمد الامين صلى الله عليه وعلى اله واصحابه وذرياته وازواجه وسلم اجمعين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقيني بربي يقينى، اکمل الحمد واشمله واعمه

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and heavily worn blue marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 140.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286912336

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