Item Summary

An Arabic anthology in three parts, incomplete at the end. The first part contains long odes; the second contains some muwashshaḥāt and the third short poems and miscellaneous excerpts. This is followed by selections from original poems of Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Sūdūn al-Bashbughāwi (1407/8-1473), poems by various poets, and a few fāʼidahs attributed to [Tāj al-Dīn] al-Subkī (1326/7-1370). The third title mentioned on the title page, Jawhar al-fard fī munāẓarat al-narjis wa-al-ward, appears to be missing.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجليس اللطيف والنديم الظريف ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Jalīs al-laṭīf wa-al-nadīm al-ẓarīf ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 62H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k930c662b
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 214 x 152 (165 x 100) mm. bound to 210 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures on the title page, some obliterated, include Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan al-Ṣaḥāwī al-Ḥanafī, Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥusayn ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī dated 1087, and Zayn al-Dīn al-Shaṭ[...] al-Madanī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 102.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol 1b-165b: Jalīs al-laṭīf wa-al-nadīm al-ẓarīf.
2. fol. 166a-190a: Mukhtār Dīwān Ibn Sūdūn.
3. fol. 190a-209b: [Poems]
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 209 ; catchwords; quires signed 2-14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in poor condition with text fully legible but extensive staining, warped pages, and partially detached and damaged binding.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes in different hands. Among the poets quoted in the first section are al-Tilimsānī (1213-1291), al-Bahāʼ Zuhayr (1258), Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Nubātah (1287-1366), Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī (1278-1349), al-Arrajāni (1756), Ibn Zaydūn (1003-1070), Ibn al-Wardī (1290-1349), Ibn al-Muʻtazz (861-908) and others. Geometric designs and writing on pastedowns, including the name of the Prophet and the rāshidūn Caliphs.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ending: ك يدل على سعادة وتحصيل المراد
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الحکيم الکريم الواسع الحليم البر الرحيم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and pendants. Gold-tooled frame, Blind-tooled decorative edging.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
426

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d3d842a9-9421-4473-af44-0240120db0a8/manifest