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. 88H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Shabrāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1680 or 1681-1757 or 1758. Qaṣīdah. [Browse]
• شبراوي، عبد الله بن محمد، 1680 or 1681-1757 or 1758. قصيدة. [Browse]

Summary note

Two amplifications (takhmīs) of the ode of ʻAbd Allāh al-Shabrāwī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 11 + (1) + xxxvi ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: 35 blank folios after the text of different paper ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• The first amplification ends on folio 6; the second amplification begins on folio 7 and ends on folio 11; the name of the author appears in the first amplification, but not in the second.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وعلى اله الذين بهم يفتح لي باب کل خير ويختم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. هذا تخميس قصيدة سيدي عبدالله الشبراوي

Binding note

Later half-bound western binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Green pastedowns and flyleaves.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 151.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287097775

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