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Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic poetry—History and criticism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Musicians—Arab countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Poets, Arab—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Poets, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 121H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

The first volume of the famous book al-Aghānī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 175 + i ; catchwords ; foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals at center top ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. It appears that the MS was trimmed as some marginal notes are cut off.
• Layout: 19-22 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Marginal notes. On the title page occur a table of contents, al-shahādah written twice, a numerical charm and other writing. Before the colophon there is a crossed-out statement that this copy was made for Amīr al-Muʼminīn. After the colophon occur an obliterated autograph of an owner, al-shahādah twice, one by Muḥammad ibn Abī Kālib dated 1284 [1867].
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 10 Ṣafar 1301 [i.e. 1201] (fol. 175b).
• Title from colophon (fol. 175b).
• Colophon: ووافق الفراغ منه ضحوة السبت العاشر من شهر الله صفر احد شهور السنة الاولى من الماية الثالثة عشر رزقنا الله خيرها وکفانا شرها
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم کثيرا أثيرا. هذا کتاب علي

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative tooled edging. Marbled paper pastedowns and blue flyleaves. Flap attached with patterned fabric.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7395-7.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 571H.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 179.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2126.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

هذا كتاب علي بن الحسين بن محمد القرشي الكاتب المعروف بالاصبهاني

Title from heading (fol. 1b)

• Hādhā Kitāb ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī al-kātib al-maʻrūf bi-al-Iṣbahānī

OCLC

1288162911

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