Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Ibn al-Khaṭīb, 1313-1374 [Browse]
• ابن الخطيب، 1313-1374 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 166H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Contains

• Qīrāṭī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1326-1379 or 1380. Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• قيراطي، ابراهيم بن عبد الله، 1326-1379 or 1380 شعر مجتارات. [Browse]
• Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā, 1278- Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• حلي، صفي الدين عبد العزيز بن سرايا، 1278- شعر مجتارات. [Browse]
• Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak, approximately 1297-1363. Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• صفدي، خليل بن ايبك، approximately 1297-1363. شعر. مجتارات. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of sayings, stories, historical extracts and poems by various authors, commencing with the story of Abū Bakr al-Makhzūmī by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb 713-776 [1313-1374/5] and containing poems by al-Qīrāṭī 726-781 [1326-1379], Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī 677-750 [1278-1349/50], al-Ṣafadī 696-764 [1296/7-1363], a fragment of the Epistle of Ibn Ḥazm 384-456 [994-1064] and other poems and literary pieces by different authors.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 + vii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, a shield?) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 28-39 lines per page ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
• Marginal glosses. On the two folios after the ending occur several verses of poetry in Turkish and several concentric circles, in the middle of which Sūrah 112 of the Qurʼān is written, and on the circumference occur the basmalah and the shahādah. The name of Muḥammad and Allāh are repeated several times. The 26 folios that follow are blank, except for a line of Turkish on one of them.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Ending: ومن حکايات المعتضد عباد ما ذکره غير واحد
• Incipit: وقد ذکر لسان الدين بن الخطيب حکاية ابي بکر المخزومي

Binding note

Contemporaneous? binding in oblong or safīnah format in brown leather. Blind-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 234.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1289793516

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