Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 118H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of verse and prose containing selections from the Kitāb alif bāʼ of Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī al-Andulusī, known as Ibn al-Shaykh, 576 [1180/1]; from the Kitāb al-Aghānī of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, 356 [967]; from Nahj al-Balāghah of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá 355-436 [965/6-1044/5]; and from the Kitāb Muthīr al-ʻAzm al-Sākin, attributed to Ibn al-Jawzī 510-597 [1116/7-1200/1].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 + (55) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: After the colophon are 54 blank folios ; watermarks (shield topped by a crown with letters underneath) ; MS in good condition.
• Final 4 folios contain twelve verses of poetry by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Andulusī, written by al-Qāḍī Aḥmad Qāṭin, a fāʼidah explaining the origin of the enmity between the dog and the cat, and recording the birth of two children in 1239 and 1240.
• Layout: 23-21 lines per page ; written on a slight slant ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: لله دره. الله سبحنه [سبحانه] يرحم الضعف
• Incipit: نبذة من کلام الصاحب اسماعيل بن عباد تجري مجرى الامثال

Binding note

Contemporaneous? binding in brown leather in oblong or safīnah format. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative tooled edging. Endbands. Lower edge of covers have evidence that there used to be a fastener.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 171.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288162519

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