Item Summary

A collection of poems on various subjects, but mostly on love.

Descriptive Information

Title
السمير الانيس اذ غلب المحب والجليس : او تبلج الازهار عن ثغور عرائس الاشعار.
Transliterated Title
al-Samīr al-anīs idha ghuliba al-muḥibb wa-al-jalīs : aw Taballuj al-azʹhār ʻan thughūr ʻarāʼis al-ashʻār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 113H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62sf477
Publisher
[not before 1867]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1867-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 117, (20) leaves : paper ; 162 x 120 (130 x 93) mm. bound to 170 x 122 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 166.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 170 + (20) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-9 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: MS in good condition, binding in poor condition with spine entirely missing.
Ibrāhīm, the first name of the compilerʼs son, together with the date of his birth, are given in a tārīkh on folio 114.
Layout: 16 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 1b).
Ending: فاسمح وجد بالقرب منك تکرما * بحياتکم وبحق طه الهادي
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي زين بساتين القلوب بازهار الاشعار
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and black marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
286

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0e7b82d2-1532-4a93-9dad-9c51b8b2c390/manifest