Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poems by various authors, containing an incomplete section of riddles, a section on al-ghilmān wa-al-jawāri al-ḥisān (young boys and fair maids), another on flowers and wine, one on anecdotes and one on beauty. Incomplete at both the beginning and the end.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Full vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators in red ; some headings in green ; MS may belong to the XIV century ; folios 48 to 58 are by a different hand ; MS in poor condition, many folios loose, staining.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Ending: يا غادة يمحا الظلام بنورها * زوري فتى اودت به البرحاء
• Incipit: وها هنا المقلمة فيفطن لذلك والله اعلم. غيره

Binding note

Covered in dark blue paper taken from a German account book.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 160.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287952545

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