Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 151H [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of love letters and stories in ten sections and ten chapters.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. On the title page are two verses of poetry in praise of the collection. On the page after colophon and on the three following folios occurs a piece of music.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 79 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13-17 lines per page ; fol. 15-26 frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Rajab 1054 by Aḥmad al-ʻAbbāsī [?]. (fol. 76a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله الهادي بمحمد
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته في اواسط رجب المبارك على ىد اضعف عباد الله احمد العباسي غفر الله لمن دعا له وللمسلمىن اجمعىن تم سنة 1054 تم وکمل

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and green marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 221.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Surūr al-muhaj wa-al-albāb fī rasāyil al-aḥbāb
• سرور المهج والالباب في رسايل الاحباب

OCLC

1288700939

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