Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 165H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poems and popular songs, mostly on love.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 132 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; some folios are yellow ; watermarks (crown over oblong?) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. On fol. 1a are 16 verses of poetry by different authors. On the four folios after the ending are ten verses of tashṭīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Turkumānī on an original poem by the Shaykh Arslān, 11 verses by ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī 1050-1143 [1641-1731], and several others by Saʻdī al-ʻUmarī, Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn al-Sammān, al-Shaykh al-Rujayḥī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar al-Shāfiʻī, and Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī [1366-1434].
• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 2a).
• Ending: وهو سبب قتله العشاق ذاك الخال
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي أمر اهل الادب

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and tooled edging on covers and flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 233.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1289789515

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