Author
Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
Publication Date
588 [June/July 1192]
Publication Place
al-Qāhirah -
Subject
Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
127
Physical Dimensions
127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
1340421796
Record ID
9963566963506421
Library Location
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Date
588 [June/July 1192]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 17 lines per page.Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر لو كنت .. مازن لم تسبح ابلي بنو اللقيطه ...Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسين بن مُضر ابن الحسين الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانين وخمسماية - Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. - A collection of poems on bravery in war.
Bağışçı
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961[Browse]
Diğer Biçimler
Also available in an electronic version.
Kaynak
Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated [1] 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī[?] dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Nadir Kitap Türü
Blind tooled bindings[Browse]Autographs[Browse]Stamps[Browse]
Referanslar
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 9.Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2.Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6.Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.
Katip
Asadī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar, active 12th century[Browse]
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
