Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Egypt—History—French occupation, 1798-1801—Poetry [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 97H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a poem commemorating the flight of the French from Egypt in A.D. 1801.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 16 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Line markers in red ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 13 Jumādá II 1216 by the author (fol. 16a-b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت هذه القصيده المبارکة التي هي من بحر الکامل المجزوء من املاء کاتبها ناظمها الفقيرالى الله تعالى يوسف سعيد المالکي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واحبابه والمسلمين امين بجاه سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وکان ذلك في يوم الاربعاء لثلاثة عشر خلت من جمادى الاخيرة سنة 1216 مائتين والف وستة عشر من هجرة سيد البشر صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم اجمعين آمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. المطلع. بشرى لمصر واهلها قد خاب بونابارته

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Tooled edging on covers and flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 612.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1287799938

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