Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 417L [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Ḥāfiẓ's collection of poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "F.G 15, 417". Inscriptions (upper pastedown, fol. 1a). "Bāb al-aʻdād" (fol. 116b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 14-21 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Watermarks ; MS in fair condition.
• Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كأسا وناولها ...
• Colophon: تمت كلام حافظ اسرارى

Binding note

Later binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Lower cover missing. Yellow paper pastedown. Spine repaired with red leather.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Leaves 1b-109a: Ghazalīyāt
• leaves 109b-114a: Mas̲navīyāt va qiṭaʻāt
• leaves 114b-116a: Rubāʻīyāt.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 417

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858811644

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