Item Summary

An anthology from various authors, such as Ibrāhīm al-Laqqānī, 1041 [1631/2], Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Būnī, 622 [1225], Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr, Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī 735-807 [1334/5-1405], ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, 726 [1325/6] and ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn al-Nābulusī 1050-1143 [1641-1731]; mostly on Ṣūfī love.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Collection of Arabic poems]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 117H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bz60d5873
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854
Extent
48 leaves : paper ; 225 x 80 (200 x 75) mm. bound to 224 x 81 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 170.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
After the colophon is a charm.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 48 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 15-23 lines per page ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Evidently copied 1271 [1854/5].
Title supplied by cataloger.
Colophon: لم اقصد الفعل القبيح وانما * قصدي اشهد صنعت [صنعة] المعبودي. تمت تم
Incipit: قصيدة. اتهتم غرامي بالهوى وقعدتموا
Binding Note
Quarter-bound binding in oblong or safīnah format in red and brown leather. Blind-tooled line decoration.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
106

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/f525d819-f9c7-454d-bf3d-945498e0fdb7/manifest