Details

Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 420L [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Contains

• Niyāzī, Aḥmad Mīrzā, -1774 or 1775. Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• نيازى، احمد ميرزا، -1774 or 1775. اشعار. مختارات. [Browse]
• ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230. Poems. Selections [Browse]
• عطار، فريد الدين، -approximately 1230. اشعار. مختارات. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Inscriptions in Persian and French (front pastedown, fol. [i]a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later paper) + 69 + iii (later paper) ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page in two columns ; frame-ruled in red and black.
• Description: MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and white (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold, red, blue and black.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1127 (fol. 59a).

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Fol. 2b-48a: Ghazals / Niyāzī
• fol. 48a-56a: Verses / ʻAṭṭār
• fol. 57a-69a: Verses by various Persian poets.

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. 420

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858862137

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