Details

Subject(s)

• Ablutions (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 120H [Browse]

Summary note

Three unrelated quires, each with a miscellany of texts.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 23 ; catchwords on the third fragment ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 14-23 lines per page.
• Description: Some vowel signs ; folios loose and foxed.
• Origin: The fragments may all belong to XVIth century.
• Beginning: [fragment 1] اذا قال فيها المادحون ... -- [fragment 2] ابن عمر انه قال كان الرجال والنسا على عهد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سوضون من انا واحد وهذه السنن الهابته عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم واصحابه الدين كانوا ... -- [fragment 3] قد علق القرط في ذاك القضا بلا ذنب ...
• Ending: [fragment 1] فابقى في العمر الا القليل -- [fragment 2] فهارشهه ... ان النبى صلى الله علهه وسلم واصحابه كانوا بسوبها واما روث ما لا يؤكل لحمه كالبغال-- [fragment 3] ابکى لحبل وصالنا المقطوع

Binding note

Unbound.

Contents

• 1. fragment 1 (fol. 1a-8b): [Miscellany] A eulogy addressed to al-Qāḍī ... al-Dīn al-Nashāʼī; another to al-Qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn, commander of the army in Egypt; three verses by al-Aṣmaʻī [739-831]; a few verses by the unknown copyist; a long ode by Shihāb al-Dīn, son of the preacher of al-Manṣūrīyah; another by al-Ẓahīr al-Aʻraj; several riddles in verse; a felicitation in verse addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn al-Sharbashī on being appointed deputy-judge in Damascus, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Nābulusī the owner of the MS; and a Muwashshaḥ.
• 2. fragment 2 (fol. 9a-17b): [Laws and regulations for ablution and purification]
• 3. fragment 3 (fol. 18a-23b): [Poems of eulogy and on wine]. One of the eulogies is dated 644 [1246/7] and another is addressed to al-Malik al-Manṣūr of Ḥamāh, probably al-Manṣūr II Muḥammad, of the Ayyūbid dynasty of Ḥamāh who reigned 642-683 [1244-1284]. Fol. 23b has magical charms (word squares) and overlapping inscriptions.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 173.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1350542580

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