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. 109H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Two odes, the first rhyming in khāl and the second in rāʼ.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in naskhi ; MS in good condition, cover worm-eaten.
• In the introduction the author states that he composed his first ode with the rhyme khāl in response to the suggestion of a Turkish poet who composed a Turkish ode with the same rhyme. The author composed his ode and sent it to Dāwūd Pāshā, former governor of Baghdād, who sent it to some poets in Baghdād; one of these sent an ode rhyming in rāʼ criticising Buṭrus Karāmahʼs ode because he was a Christian. The author composed his second ode rhyming in rāʼ in answer to that criticism. On the two folios after the colophon is a fragment on music by al-ʻAṭṭār ʻAlī. On the two following folios occurs an ode in eulogy of Abū al-Mawāhib al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, 1037 [1627/8] by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mallāḥ.
• Layout: 18-20 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: تمت القصيدة
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين مالك يوم الدين

Binding note

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

Provenance

On the title page occurs an obliterated seal impression. Seal impression that reads: bi-al-yumn ... Salāmah on fol. 5a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 145.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287999754

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