Item Summary

Incomplete collection of original poems of eulogy and satire, elegies and poems of love.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان / شهاب الدين احمد بن ابي العنايات المكي النابلسي الدمشقي الشهير بالعناياتي
Transliterated Title
Dīwān / Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʻInāyāt al-Makkī al-Nābulusī al-Dimashqī al-shahīr bi-al-ʻInāyātī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 69H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/q237j252k
Language
Arabic
Extent
79 leaves : paper ; 202 x 143 (150 x 87) mm. bound to 202 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7956.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 641.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 112.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1660.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 79 ; catchwords ; foliated in black ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b with gilt frame.
Description: Rubricated ; poems are numbered ; MS in good condition but several folios worm-eaten and mended. Probably a folio after the first is lost; the folios are numbered 84, while they count only 79. It is evident that some folios are lost at the end.
Layout: 21 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; ruled.
Marginal notes; marginal and interlinear glosses. On the title page are defaced autographs of several owners, two verses of poetry and some additional markings.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ending: وقال ايضا
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل منصب الادب ارفع المناصب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind stamped with lobed centerpiece with pendants and decorative tooled edging on both covers and flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
169

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/076b6ade-7ddf-4561-9ad9-52d7310a11f6/manifest