Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 150H [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 poems and the lives of their authors. MS in six parts: (1) the fine qualities of the people of Damascus and its environs, (2) the fine qualities of contemporary Maghribis, (3) Makkah and its inhabitants, (4) Egypt, (5) the Greeks and some of the authorʼs experiences with Greek leaders.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. On back of the first page are eleven verses of poetry, two of which are by Manṣūr al-Balbīsi.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 247 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; quires signed 1-25 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; verse separators in red ; rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet cursive letters "PR" ; MS in excellent condition.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 14 Rajab 1245 by ʻUthmān al-Ṭishāwī/al-Ṭanishāwī[?] (fol. 247a).
• Title from colophon (fol. 247a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة الشريفة يوم السبت المبارك اربع عشرة يوما خلت من رجب سنة 1245 على يد کاتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى عثمان الطيشاوي عفي عنه
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. حمدا لمن سرح عيون البصائر

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and tooled edging. Blind-stamped motif and tooling on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Block stamped design in red and yellow on pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7415/6, 10219³.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2134-6.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 524.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 407/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 259.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 218.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1123.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288700913

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