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ترجيع الاطيار بمرقص الاشعار / نظم عبد الرحمن بن يحيى الانسي.
Tarjīʻ al-aṭyār bi-muraqqiṣ al-ashʻār / naẓm ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī.
1849-1872
The original poems of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī followed by selections from various well-known poets and others less prominent. It also contains a quotation from Taʼrīkh [Abū Bakr] Kānī (1712-1792) listing the reigns of the caliphs from Abū Bakr to al-Mustaʻṣim billāh; another quotation from the Murūj al-Dhahab of al-Masʻūd (d. 956); and still another quotation from al-Ṣādiḥ al-Gharīb [?].
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- Publisher
- [between 1849 and 1872?]
- People
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- Author
- Ānisī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá, 1754 or 1755-1834 or 1835
- آنسي، عبد الرحمن بن يحيى، 1754 or 1755-1834 or 1835
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 101H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
The original poems of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī followed by selections from various well-known poets and others less prominent. It also contains a quotation from Taʼrīkh [Abū Bakr] Kānī (1712-1792) listing the reigns of the caliphs from Abū Bakr to al-Mustaʻṣim billāh; another quotation from the Murūj al-Dhahab of al-Masʻūd (d. 956); and still another quotation from al-Ṣādiḥ al-Gharīb [?].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ترجيع الاطيار بمرقص الاشعار / نظم عبد الرحمن بن يحيى الانسي.
- Transliterated Title
- Tarjīʻ al-aṭyār bi-muraqqiṣ al-ashʻār / naẓm ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 101H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/44558p91p
- Publisher
- [between 1849 and 1872?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1849-1872
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 290 leaves : paper ; 223 x 159 (180 x 130) mm bound to 230 x 157 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, S II, 817 (2a)
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 141.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 290 ; catchwords in red ink ; between fol. 139 and 140 are 8 blank folios ; between fol. 177 and 179 are 2 blank folios ; between fol. 279 and 280 are two blank folios ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; headings and verse separators in red and yellow ink ; MS in fair condition, binding partially detached from text block ; title page oriented upside-down to remainder of text.
- Layout: 14-27 lines per page. Number of columns varies ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
- Marginal glosses. On folio 164 is a poem by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĪsá written on a chess-board and readable only by following the movement of the ʻʻknightʼʼ in the game. Title page has a statement that the poetical works of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Ānisī were originally compiled by his son Muḥammed, and on folio 53 we learn that the son died before the father.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Ending: ما انا عادم الجواب ولکن * ما من الفضل ان تجاب الکلاب
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال القاضي العلامة وجيه الدين عبدالرحمن بن يحيى
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous binding in oblong or safīnah format in red leather. Blind-tooled design across entire cover. Leather fasteners. Colored endbands.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 600
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/efd3d20c-2a78-47bb-988b-e91701f4d449/manifest