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ديوان / ابي الفتح محمود بن الحسين بن السندي ... المعروف بكشاجم.
Dīwān / Abī al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Sindī ... al-maʻrūf bi-Kushājim.
1120
The poems of Kushājim on various subjects, including an elegy on his mother, eulogies and satires, and the description of a school, of snow, of a horse, and of his stolen knife.
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- Publisher
- 29 Ṣafar 514 [May 30, 1120]
- People
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- Author
- Kushājim, Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥusayn, active 10th century
- كشاجم، محمود بن الحسين، active 10th century
- Scribe
- Ibn al-Maqrūn
- Related Name
- ابن المقرون
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 17H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
The poems of Kushājim on various subjects, including an elegy on his mother, eulogies and satires, and the description of a school, of snow, of a horse, and of his stolen knife.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ديوان / ابي الفتح محمود بن الحسين بن السندي ... المعروف بكشاجم.
- Transliterated Title
- Dīwān / Abī al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Sindī ... al-maʻrūf bi-Kushājim.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 17H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xw42nj46n
- Publisher
- 29 Ṣafar 514 [May 30, 1120]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1120
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (3), 117 leaves : paper ; 178 x 127 (145 x 85) mm. bound to 180 x 144 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Folios 68, 70 and 77 bear a seal impression: "mulk Mawlay Luṭf ʻAbdullah Niʻmah." Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7584
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 625
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1071
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 23.
- Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist (1872), p. 139
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 3, 117 ; catchwords at end of quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Decoration: Title page is illuminated and bears a gilded bookplate with the words: min kutub al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Talawī al-Khālidī. Title and medallion have text in silver ink surrounded by decoration in red, black, gold and blue.
- Description: Written in clear naskhi ; vowel signs ; MS is exceedingly rare ; MS is in good condition.
- Layout: 14 lines per page.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied al-Sabt 29 Ṣafar 514 by Ibn al-Maqrūn (fol. 117a).
- Three folios before title page have a number of verses by ʻAlī ibn al-Ṣaqqār al-Māridīnī and a short paragraph by another about Kushājim. In upper left hand corner of title page is a statement that entire MS was written by Ibn al-Maqrūn the scribe. In upper right hand corner of title page is a statement that the manuscript contains 120 leaves from beginning to end.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: تم جميع شعر کشاجم والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي وآله الطاهرين الاخيار. وقع الفراغ منه في يوم السبت تاسع عشرين صفر من اربع عشرة وخمس مائة. کتبه ابن المقرون
- Incipit.: بسم الله الرحن الرحيم. قال ابوالفتح محمود ابن الحسين بن السندي بن شاهك الکاتب المعروف بکشاجم
- Binding Note
- Later? type III binding (without flap) in brown leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla with pendants and decorative edging. Leather doublures with block-pressed design.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 248
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/9aa8c309-e3b6-402c-a7ac-140d653214df/manifest