Item Summary

Original poems of eulogy, correspondence and riddles.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان / محمد افندي الكريمي.
Transliterated Title
Dīwān / Muḥammad Afandī al-Karīmī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 77H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jw827n242
Publisher
[between 1619 and 1738]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1619-1738
Format
Manuscript
Extent
35 leaves : paper ; 194 x 140 (140 x 75) mm. bound to 194 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Title page has several ownership statements: al-Sayyid Sulaymān 1151, and Muṣṭafá. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7987/8.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 634,
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 121.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fols. 35 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, most pages repaired at the top, incomplete at end.
Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches.
Ms. codex.
On folio before title page are two verses by Amīn al-Muḥibbī 1061-1111 (1650/1-1699) and two well-known wisdom verses which begin: saʼaltu al-nās ʻan khill wafī. Page after the ending and folio following have several verses of unknown authorship.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Ending: بوعد رأينا في جوانبه المطلا
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
82

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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