Author
Ibn Hijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu Bakr ibn Ali, -1434
Author Original
Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, -1434, ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين ابو بكر بن علي
Publication Date
1618
Publication Place
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[1618]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Type
kitap
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9953519623506421
Record ID
dctb09jh85f
Library Location
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 231B
Date
1618-01-01T00:00:00Z — 1618
Notes
Collection of poems. The text is followed on follo. 58a-b by more poetry. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a)., Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in small medium naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Worm-eaten., Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by ʻUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Damīrī al-Mālikī(?) on 4 Muḥarram 1028 [Dec. 22, 1618], from an old copy, dated Thursday 28 Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 861 [March 25, 1457] (fol. 57b)., Incipit: The eminent scholar Sheikh Farid Dahra and Nazim Shaml al-Adab said in his prose Tafi al-Din Abu Bakr Ibn Hajja al-Hamawi, the maker of the honorable Diwan al-Insha in the Islamic Kingdom, may God have mercy on him and have mercy on him. Praise be to God, whose sum of bounty is innumerable and whose remembrance is not matched by oblivion. He taught us the rhetoric, so he taught us the Creator of the heavens and the earth... [2b]... And then these are papers in the gardens of literature that are bright and even stars in the sky of eloquence | Dark red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled and stamped. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. | On fol. 1a: Impression of a circular stamp dated 1028 AH., apparently in the name of the copyist; Partially erased reading statement. On fol. 57b: Reading dated statement Zāwiyah al-Ḥājj ...?, 22 Shaʻbān 32 ; Ownership statement in the name of Nimāyal walad Yūsuf walad ...?, dated 10 Muḥarram 1210, with mention of price. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 98