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. 439H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A rhetorical ode in praise of the Prophet. The author states in the preface that he composed this ode to refute that of Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī 767-837 [1365/6-1434].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with face-in-a-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله البديع صنعه واحکامه
• Colophon: تمت وبالله المستعان وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد سيد ولد عدنان وعلى اله وصحبه اولي الفضل والرضوان وسلم تسليما کثيرا امين يا رب العالمين. تم

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed design. Brown paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 567.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 35.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 140, VII, p. 464.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7374/5.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1331311905

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