Item Summary

A collection of original poems of eulogy, satire and love.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان.
Transliterated Title
Dīwān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 22H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpk02cn778
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1850
Format
Manuscript
Extent
144 leaves : paper ; 201 x 150 (155 x 100) mm bound to 201 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʻUqayl (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 38.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 242, 299.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7680.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3126.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 2b).
Marginal notes. On folios 1a and 2a are some numerical charms and magic squares. Surrounding the text on folios 2b, 3a, and on folio 143b are some medical prescriptions. After colophon (fol. 125b) 18 folios are added which have poems of al-Qāḍī al-Bayāḍī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn, Ibn al-ʻArabī, Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqrī, ʻUmar ibn Yaʻqūb al-Anbārī and others. Title also appears on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 144 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (text: three crescents; later endpaper: crest with roman-alphabet letters "GM") ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصوة على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين وبعد فهذا ديوان ابى اسحق ابرهيم بن يحيى بن عثمان بن محمد ...
Colophon: وهذه ما وجدناه من مسوداته واما باقي المسودات انتحلها صاحب له وسافر الى بلاد الشرق وامتدح بها ملوکها وقد وجدنا قصيدة مهموزة نثبتها ها هنا اذ لم نقع على شيء من شعره وهي ما قال. يقول
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and purple-red textured paper. Multi-colored endbands. Text block is separated from cover.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
magic squares
Headbands
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
303

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5488f059-319e-40e4-8463-a032a05cd19b/manifest