Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 113H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poems on various subjects, but mostly on love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 170 + (20) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-9 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: MS in good condition, binding in poor condition with spine entirely missing.
• Ibrāhīm, the first name of the compilerʼs son, together with the date of his birth, are given in a tārīkh on folio 114.
• Layout: 16 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Ending: فاسمح وجد بالقرب منك تکرما * بحياتکم وبحق طه الهادي
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي زين بساتين القلوب بازهار الاشعار

Binding note

Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and black marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 166.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Taballuj al-azʹhār ʻan thughūr ʻarāʼis al-ashʻār
• تبلج الازهار عن ثغور عرائس الاشعار

OCLC

1288004522

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