Item Summary

Original poems on various subjects arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes and followed by some muwashshaḥāt.

Descriptive Information

Title
[ديوان].
Transliterated Title
[Dīwān].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 82H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/37720p30n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1805
Extent
88, (1) leaves : paper ; 192 x 127 (158 x 72) mm. bound to 193 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Title page bears two obliterated autographs of owner, one dated 1220. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 106.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 245.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7919.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 774.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3098³.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes by a later hand.
Collation: Paper ; fols. 88 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in gold with red lines separating hemistitches.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in excellent condition, binding detached from text block.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold with blue, gray and yellow floral designs.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. هذا ما وجد من نظم الشيخ الفاضل خادم مدح النبي
Colophon: تم الکتاب والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and grey marbled paper. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
191

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/10a0cf0a-224d-45ff-85c9-3c769efbe24f/manifest