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ديوان / علي بن محمد بن مقرب الاحسائي.
Dīwān / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muqarrab al-Aḥsāʼī.
A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy and in extolment of military exploits, arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme, with commentary.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 28H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and elegy and in extolment of military exploits, arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme, with commentary.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ديوان / علي بن محمد بن مقرب الاحسائي.
- Transliterated Title
- Dīwān / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muqarrab al-Aḥsāʼī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 28H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pz50gz714
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 309 leaves : paper ; 206 x 140 (155 x 90) mm. bound to 206 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7710/1.
- Catálogo de los manuscritos árabes existentes en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, 215.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 607.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 235/6.
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 44.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1066.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 309 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; both pastedowns and the leaf opposite striated with brown ink ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 17-18 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Folio preceding title page, which is mended, has a table of necrology. On page preceding title page is a statement about Jarīr as the best poet in Islam with some of his verses. On folio after colophon are several verses by unknown authors. The dīwān is of special historical value because in it the author recites military exploits of his ancestors in war against the Qarmaṭians of al-Baḥrayn during fifth and sixth Muslim centuries.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from text (fol. 2b).
- Colophon: تمت
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي برء [برأ] الانسان في احسن تقويم
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla, other designs and framing on both covers and flap. Repaired at a later date in America.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 633
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/51738420-9803-436d-9f12-76761461ba49/manifest