Details

Subject(s)

• Muwashshah [Browse]
• Songs, Arabic [Browse]
• Arabs—Music [Browse]
• Folk songs, Arabic—Egypt—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 411H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Music [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

Collections of over 350 song texts, organized by maqām and waṣlah; table of contents on leaves 1a-2a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 3b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 311 + ii ; catchwords ; paginated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning on leaf 2b ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; in 1-2 columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in good condition; some staining and smudging.
• Incipit: حمدا لن حكم على اهل الهوى بالنوى والفراق فصاروا بحيث لو صاحوا باتحجاز لا سمعوا من في العراق.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in maroon leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 474 ; SII, 721.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

842972097

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