Details

Subject(s)

• Abū Nuwās approximately 756-approximately 810 [Browse]
• ابو نواس، approximately 756-approximately 810 [Browse]
• Folk literature, Arabic—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. 171H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 740.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1290250746

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