Item Summary

A collection of poems and popular songs, mostly on love.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموع ظريف من لطايف ورقايق وظرايف ودقايق وقصايد سنية ونکت ادبية.
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻ ẓarīf min laṭāyif wa-raqayiq wa-ẓarāyif wa-daqāyiq wa-qaṣāyid sanīyah wa-nukat adabīyah ...
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 165H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmw22vg25x
Language
Arabic
Extent
132 leaves : paper ; 165 x 115 (120 x 80) mm. bound to 164 x 115 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 233.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 132 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; some folios are yellow ; watermarks (crown over oblong?) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Marginal notes. On fol. 1a are 16 verses of poetry by different authors. On the four folios after the ending are ten verses of tashṭīr by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Turkumānī on an original poem by the Shaykh Arslān, 11 verses by ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī 1050-1143 [1641-1731], and several others by Saʻdī al-ʻUmarī, Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn al-Sammān, al-Shaykh al-Rujayḥī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar al-Shāfiʻī, and Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī [1366-1434].
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 2a).
Ending: وهو سبب قتله العشاق ذاك الخال
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي أمر اهل الادب
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and tooled edging on covers and flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
275

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cd04334c-ea0d-4116-a109-9ab0c1cf4a28/manifest