Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Figures of speech—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. 438H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A rhetorical ode in praise of the Prophet.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title page bears date 1279.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition with large areas of staining.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. براعة المطلع والجناس الکامل والجناس الاشتقاقي
• Colophon: والآل والصحب والاتباع ما دنف * کنى باسماء عما دام في کلمي. والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and yellow paper with block-pressed design.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muḥammad Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Jamā[mī?] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 566.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 35.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3248¹¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1331406641

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