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ديوان.
Dīwān.
A collection of original poems eulogizing the Sultan Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh, the Sultan Masʻūd, al-Malik Maḥmūd ibn al-Sulṭān Muḥammad, Majd-al-Mulk Abū al-Faḍl Asʻad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, Muʻīn-al-Mulk Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad Faḍlullāh and others, but especially Niẓām-al-Mulk,to whom he devotes a considerable part of his Dīwān; also contains satires and elegies, descriptions of nature, the skies and the stars, flowers and fruits, together with an elegy on the vicissitudes of time.
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- Author
- Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, 1061 or 1062-1121?
- طغرائي، الحسين بن علي، 1061 or 1062-1121?
- Scribe
- Marṣafī, Muḥammad
- Related Name
- مرصفي، محمد
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 20H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of original poems eulogizing the Sultan Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh, the Sultan Masʻūd, al-Malik Maḥmūd ibn al-Sulṭān Muḥammad, Majd-al-Mulk Abū al-Faḍl Asʻad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, Muʻīn-al-Mulk Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad Faḍlullāh and others, but especially Niẓām-al-Mulk,to whom he devotes a considerable part of his Dīwān; also contains satires and elegies, descriptions of nature, the skies and the stars, flowers and fruits, together with an elegy on the vicissitudes of time.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ديوان.
- Transliterated Title
- Dīwān.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 20H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ww72bn07v
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 106 leaves : paper ; 202 x 125 (150 x 90) mm. bound to 202 x 135 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 603.
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 35.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Blue paper ; fol. i + 106 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-11 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 15 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in red.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Before the title page is a statement by the copyist, al-Marṣafī, that he collected this dīwān in response to the suggestion of the Imām. After the colophon are three folios which have several verses by al-Ṭughrāʼi. On the inside of the front cover is one verse.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-Marṣafī (fol. 103b).
- Title from fol. 1b.
- Colophon: انتهى ما وجد من ديوان الطغرائي على يد کاتبه محمد المرصفي غفرالله له ولوالديه بجاه النبي عليه السلام م
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد
- Binding Note
- Later type II binding (with flap) in red leather and blue marbled paper. Binding has been mended.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 229
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/30612df4-5840-480e-ae41-cfe6a437fb01/manifest