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A collection of verse and prose containing selections from the Kitāb alif bāʼ of Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī al-Andulusī, known as Ibn al-Shaykh, 576 [1180/1]; from the Kitāb al-Aghānī of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, 356 [967]; from Nahj al-Balāghah of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá 355-436 [965/6-1044/5]; and from the Kitāb Muthīr al-ʻAzm al-Sākin, attributed to Ibn al-Jawzī 510-597 [1116/7-1200/1].
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- Publisher
- [not after 1823?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 118H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of verse and prose containing selections from the Kitāb alif bāʼ of Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī al-Andulusī, known as Ibn al-Shaykh, 576 [1180/1]; from the Kitāb al-Aghānī of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, 356 [967]; from Nahj al-Balāghah of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá 355-436 [965/6-1044/5]; and from the Kitāb Muthīr al-ʻAzm al-Sākin, attributed to Ibn al-Jawzī 510-597 [1116/7-1200/1].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Collection of Arabic poems and miscellany].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 118H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fq978441m
- Publisher
- [not after 1823?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1823
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 29, (55) leaves : paper ; 213 x 102 (190 x 90) mm. bound to 213 x 106 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 171.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 + (55) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: After the colophon are 54 blank folios ; watermarks (shield topped by a crown with letters underneath) ; MS in good condition.
- Final 4 folios contain twelve verses of poetry by Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī al-Ṭulayṭilī al-Andulusī, written by al-Qāḍī Aḥmad Qāṭin, a fāʼidah explaining the origin of the enmity between the dog and the cat, and recording the birth of two children in 1239 and 1240.
- Layout: 23-21 lines per page ; written on a slight slant ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Colophon: لله دره. الله سبحنه [سبحانه] يرحم الضعف
- Incipit: نبذة من کلام الصاحب اسماعيل بن عباد تجري مجرى الامثال
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? binding in brown leather in oblong or safīnah format. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative tooled edging. Endbands. Lower edge of covers have evidence that there used to be a fastener.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 174
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ec0c305-f218-4e90-abd3-baaa12f0df0f/manifest