Item Summary

An anthology of the poets of al-ʻIrāq, their anecdotes and history, including the founding of the Daylami dynasty 334 [946].

Descriptive Information

Title
القسم الثاني من يتيمة الدهر في شعراء العصر / تأليف الثعالبي.
Transliterated Title
al-Qism al-thānī min Yatīmat al-dahr fī shuʻarāʼ al-ʻaṣr / taʼlīf al-Thaʻālibī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 125H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/s1784w378
Publisher
[1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 [May 5, 1666]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1666
Format
Manuscript
Extent
177 leaves : paper ; 199 x 137 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 203 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership autographs on the title page include: Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī 1076 with his seal impression, Naṣr Allāh 1217 with his seal impression, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Furūḥī 1153, and ʻAlī ibn Jahīr[?] al-Ḥusaynī 1250 with his seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7401²-3, 5.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3308-11.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 363-5.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 145.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 185.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2127.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 177 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (circular with portrait?) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Marginal notes and summaries. On folio before title page is a table of contents. On title page are four verses of poetry about the Yatīmah. Folios 19, 28-115, and 141-171 are on different paper (no watermarks) and by a much earlier hand, probably of the XIVth century. In these sections, the biographee's names appear also in roundels in the margin in red or green ink.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday [1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī (fol. 177a).
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من اتمام انخرامات هذا القسم الثاني نهار الاربعاء غرة ذي القعدة سنة 1076 على يد الفقير ابراهيم بن سليمان ابن محمد بن عبد العزيز الحنفي واتمه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله تعالى من بعده. عفي عنه
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. القسم الثاني يشتمل على محاسن شعراء اهل العراق
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper. Gold-stamped spine decorations. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry—Iraq—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poets, Arab—Iraq—Biography—Early works to 1800
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
366

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4810a389-9d39-476c-8713-bb277baa5152/manifest