Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Cairo (Egypt)—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Nile River—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rawdah Island (Egypt)—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 179H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

Vol. I of a work on the description and history of al-Rawḍah, an island in the Nile now a part of Cairo, together with a description of the Nile.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 132 ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition but some folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. Evidently the last folio is by a later hand. On the folio preceding the title page is a poem by Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Tāwikhī(?) and some other additions. On the page after the colophon and on the folio following occur two verses of poetry in praise of the book, a statement by the author that he composed this work 875 [1470], and several poems called ʻʻpoems of joyʼʼ.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: هذا اخر ما اردت ايراده في هذا الجزؤ الاول من هذا الکتاب
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... سبحان الله فاتق الانهار

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

The title page carries a large number of ownership signatures, some partially erased or overlapping. They include: H[?] al-Sulṭān dated 984, ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Maʻarrī, one dated 1030, another dated 1095. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6111.
• Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 953.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2366-73.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 416.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 913.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 601.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1530/1.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1291215966

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