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Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Iraq—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Poets, Arab—Iraq—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥanafī, Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• حنفي، ابراهيم بن سليمان، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 125H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

An anthology of the poets of al-ʻIrāq, their anecdotes and history, including the founding of the Daylami dynasty 334 [946].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 177 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (circular with portrait?) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and summaries. On folio before title page is a table of contents. On title page are four verses of poetry about the Yatīmah. Folios 19, 28-115, and 141-171 are on different paper (no watermarks) and by a much earlier hand, probably of the XIVth century. In these sections, the biographee's names appear also in roundels in the margin in red or green ink.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday [1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī (fol. 177a).
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من اتمام انخرامات هذا القسم الثاني نهار الاربعاء غرة ذي القعدة سنة 1076 على يد الفقير ابراهيم بن سليمان ابن محمد بن عبد العزيز الحنفي واتمه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله تعالى من بعده. عفي عنه
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. القسم الثاني يشتمل على محاسن شعراء اهل العراق

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper. Gold-stamped spine decorations. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership autographs on the title page include: Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī 1076 with his seal impression, Naṣr Allāh 1217 with his seal impression, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Furūḥī 1153, and ʻAlī ibn Jahīr[?] al-Ḥusaynī 1250 with his seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7401²-3, 5.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3308-11.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 363-5.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 145.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 185.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2127.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Yatīmat al-dahr
• يتيمة الدهر

OCLC

1288166122

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