Item Summary

Original poems of eulogy, mostly to al-Malik al-Nāṣir of the Rasūlid dynasty of al-Yaman.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزل المعتمد المفيد.
Transliterated Title
al-Jazl al-muʻtamad al-mufīd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 61H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74d103n
Publisher
22 Shaʻbān 1000 [June 3, 1592]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1592
Format
Manuscript
Extent
213 leaves : paper ; 220 x 144 (150 x 88) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements on title page, including one from ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shak[īr?] written in a decorative frame above the title. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 100.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 ; catchwords ; foliation in red in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Title page and first page illuminated. Title page frame-ruled with gold and blue. Title page includes a headpiece in gold, dark brown, light blue surrounding the author's name. The first page of the text has a gold headpiece with blue and white decoration and gold and blue frame-ruling. Folio 2a has gold and blue frame; subsequent folios have a blue single-line frame. Codex irregularly alternates between white, yellow, and red paper.
Description: Red, black and green headings throughout ; MS is rare ; MS in fair condition, many folios are worm-eaten with some mended.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue ; verse separators in red or green.
Marginal notes. On folio 128 there is a ʻʻpoetical treeʼʼ in praise of al-Malik al-Nāṣir. MS of importance for the historical study of the Rasūlid period. The author occupied a teaching position in the Jihādīyah School at Taʻizz and in the Niẓāmīyah at Zabīd. He also acted as judge in the latter town.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 22 Shaʻbān 1000 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sammān (fol. 213b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا الديوان السعيد نهار الثلاثا ثاني عشرين شهر شعبان المبارك من السنة الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلام. وذلك بخط العبد الفقير الراجي عفوربه المنان محمد عبد الرحمن السمان عفى الله فهما آمين
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وعلمه البيان. والصلوة على رسوله
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nāṣir Aḥmad Sultan of Yemen -1424
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Poetry
Autographs
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
437

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/2a7e5353-f3db-4cdf-a16e-131835451e1d/manifest