Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 409H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the seven forms of poetry, namely: (1) al-shiʻr, (2) al-tawshīḥ, (3) al-dūbayt, (4) al-zajal, (5) kān wa-kān, (6) al-qawmah and (7) al-mawālī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 57 + i ; catchwords ; every tenth folio foliated using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Simple headpiece consisting of lines of varying thickness in red ink.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 15 Muḥarram 1292 by Muḥammad Rashwān ibn Muḥammad Amīn (fol. 57b).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الکريم الوهاب الحليم التواب
• Colophon: قد تم نقل هذه الرسالة اللطيفة العديمة المثال المحتوية على کل ما يحتاج اليه المبتدي والمنتهي في السبعة الفنون الادبية على يد احوج الخلق الى الله محمد رشوان ابن محمد امين في 15 محرم سنة 1292 اللهم اغفر له ولوالديه وللمسلمين

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 513.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 284.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 376¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1317710067

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