Item Summary

Stories about Abū Nuwās, and some of his poems about wine, told by Abū Hiffān.

Descriptive Information

Title
حکاية ابي هفان.
Transliterated Title
[Ḥikāyat Abī Hiffān]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 171H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccc08hr411
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
40, (1) leaves : paper ; 203 x 124 (165 x 70) mm bound to 204 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 740.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circle with a cross inside, crown) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. Poems by various authors on fol. 1b and 2a.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Colophon: تم والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ابو هفان قال اخبرني
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū Nuwās approximately 756-approximately 810
ابو نواس، approximately 756-approximately 810
Folk literature, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
93

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1e8f37d0-0dab-44ee-bed5-a8596d188237/manifest