Item Summary

The ʻIrāqīyāt of al-Abīwardi, a poem dealing with al-ʻIrāq and containing youthful effusions and eulogies of ʻAbbāsid Caliphs and their ministers.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان الابيوردي.
Transliterated Title
Dīwān al-Abīwardī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 19H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqn59qf98q
Publisher
[not after 1750]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1750
Format
Manuscript
Extent
70 leaves : paper ; 249 x 181 (181 x 107) mm bound to 251 x 183 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Ismāʻīl al-Jamālī, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Zaʻīm[?] dated 1163 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 34.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7634.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3117.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 239.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Title page is full of faded and overlapping inscriptions. MS comprises only a part of the complete poetical works of the author.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 70 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with double-red line between hemistitches.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (replacement folios only: coat-of-arms, three crescents and roman-alphabet letters "tre lune") ; MS in good condition, light staining. Folios 50, 51, 60, 61 and 70 are by a different hand and are a later replacement. Several folios have been mended.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أما بعد حمد الله على نعمة غناء المراد ومنحة متصلة الامداد ...
Colophon: وقال يرثي الملك احمد بن ملکشاه رحمه الله. الموجود هنا مقدار نصف الديوان
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Blue paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abbasids—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Headbands
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
148

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9eb1e640-7689-4444-8500-f8a0ee1cb36c/manifest