Details

Subject(s)

• God (Islam)—Love—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 68H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems on Ṣūfī love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fols. i + 68 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 13 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page ia a note that there are 7 quires, and some stray writing.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 7 Rabīʻ I 1003 (fol. 68b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم الديوان المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في سابع شهر ربيع الاول سنة 3 بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي نور قلوب اوليايه

Binding note

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

Provenance

Ownership signatures on title page include Yūsuf al-Damāṣī al-Shāfiʻī, dated 1073. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 146.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286687199

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