Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 101H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

The original poems of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī followed by selections from various well-known poets and others less prominent. It also contains a quotation from Taʼrīkh [Abū Bakr] Kānī (1712-1792) listing the reigns of the caliphs from Abū Bakr to al-Mustaʻṣim billāh; another quotation from the Murūj al-Dhahab of al-Masʻūd (d. 956); and still another quotation from al-Ṣādiḥ al-Gharīb [?].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 290 ; catchwords in red ink ; between fol. 139 and 140 are 8 blank folios ; between fol. 177 and 179 are 2 blank folios ; between fol. 279 and 280 are two blank folios ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; headings and verse separators in red and yellow ink ; MS in fair condition, binding partially detached from text block ; title page oriented upside-down to remainder of text.
• Layout: 14-27 lines per page. Number of columns varies ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
• Marginal glosses. On folio 164 is a poem by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĪsá written on a chess-board and readable only by following the movement of the ʻʻknightʼʼ in the game. Title page has a statement that the poetical works of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī were originally compiled by his son Muḥammed, and on folio 53 we learn that the son died before the father.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: ما انا عادم الجواب ولکن * ما من الفضل ان تجاب الکلاب
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال القاضي العلامة وجيه الدين عبدالرحمن بن يحيى

Binding note

Contemporaneous binding in oblong or safīnah format in red leather. Blind-tooled design across entire cover. Leather fasteners. Colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, C. GAL, S II, 817 (2a)
• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 141.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1285428652

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