Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Khālidī, Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• خالي، اسماعيل بن عبد الله، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 145H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

An anthology of verse and prose in five parts. The first contains al-Muṭawwalāt, the second al-Azjāl wa-al-Muwashshaḥāt, the third al-Maqāṭīʻ, the fourth al-Nathrīyāt and the fifth al-Ḥikāyāt. Composed 826 [1423].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 210 + ii ; catchwords ; foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink ; quires signed 3-20 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators and some overwriting in red ; watermarks (shield, letters "A C") ; MS in good condition, first and last folios mended.
• Layout: 24-32 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• On the title page is a statement by the copyist that the present MS has been copied from the original. Folios 49 to 104, 174, 175 and the last are of different kind of paper, and writing is by a later hand. On folio after the colophon is an elegy by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Hajrasi al-Dimyāṭī containing a tārīkh for the year 1265 [1848], the date of the death of the Shaykh ʻUthmān al-Dimyāṭī, for whom the elegy was recited.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 11 Muḥarram 1265 in Mekka by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khālidī (fol. 109b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان ذلك صبيحة يوم الجمعة حادي عشر شهر الله المحرّم افتتاح سنة 1265 بمکة المشرفة على يد الحقير اسمعيل بن عبدالله الخالدي عفى [عفا] الله عنهما. آمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. رب يسّر وأعن وتمم بخير يا لريم [کريم]. آمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Flap detached. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants surrounded by blind-stamped motifs. Blind-tooled decorative border. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Title page bears a number of ownership signatures, most obscured. One ownership signature for Muḥammad al-Anṣārī is dated 978 which conflicts with the colophon dating of the MS. Acquired form Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 510.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1104/5.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 400.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 213.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1119.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288688503

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