Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Compiler

• Anṣārī, Aḥmad ibn Tāj al-Dīn, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• انصاري، احمد بن تاج الدين active 17th century . [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 159H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A collection of poems and letters by Tāj al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Mālikī al-Anṣārī compiled by the authorʼs son.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 164 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; 16 quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown, star topped by a crescent) ; MS is rare ; MS in good condition but folios are loose and binding is detached.
• Layout: 24-26 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. Seal of Solomon on title page (fol. 5a). On three folios before title page are a number of verses of poetry and the beginning of a letter. On the two folios after the colophon are two verses of poetry by the author, a will and another note.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 22 Jumādá I 1101 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Ḥusaynī[?] (fol. 163a).
• Title from title page (fol. 5a).
• Colophon: قد وافق الفراغ من نساخته يوم السبت الثاني والعشرين من شهر جمادى الاولى بقلم افقر العباد اليه تعالى الغني عمن سواه عبده الفقير الحقير عبدالرحمن بن السيد عبد الغني الحسيني الحنفي غفر الله له
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم. وبعد فيقول جامع هذا المجموع.

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Flap lined with block-stamped paper.

Provenance

Obliterated ownership signature of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qaṭ[īfī?] (fol. 5a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3420.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 220.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

تاج المجاميع

Title on lower edge

• Tāj al-majāmīʻ

OCLC

1289637759

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