Details

Subject(s)

• Alchemy—Poetry—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. 539H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of original poems on alchemy arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes. The work is otherwise known as Shudhūr al-dhahab fī al-iksīr.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On title page occurs a statement that this work contains 43 poems and 1487 verses and that it was copied 942 [1536]. Fol. (1)a has inscription from Leiden.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 69 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
• Origin: According to title page copied beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 942 (fol. 1a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه المستعان قال الشيخ الامام العالم .. ابو الحسن على بن موسى بن ابى القاسم بن على الانصارى الاندلسى الشهير بابن المغربى ...
• Colophon: رفع الله حجاب الغفلة عن قلوبنا وبلغنا بفضله ما فيه لنا الخير من مطلوبنا بمنه وکرمه امين رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and yellow spotted paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 931.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 17.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 383.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 601¹.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4180.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423449

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