Item Summary

A collection of original poems of eulogy and satire, and on wine, love and asceticism, arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان.
Transliterated Title
Dīwān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 14H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326mb283
Language
Arabic
Extent
4 volumes (158 + (1), (1) + 194 + (1), (1) + 154 + (3), (1) + 213 + (2) leaves) : paper ; 245 x 170 (170 x 100) mm. bound to 252 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 610.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 277
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 233
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 19.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 41
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Vol. I, fols. 158: hamzah-kh
vol. II, fols. 204: d-s
vol. III, fols. 154: sh-k
vol. IV, fols. 213: l-h.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 158 + (1) + iv ; iv + 194 + (1) + iv; iv + (1) + 154 + (3) + iv; iv + (1) + 213 +(2) + iv ; catchwords ; quires signed volume 1: 2-16, volume 2: 2-21, volume 3: 2-19, volume 4: 2-22 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS very neat and in good condition.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon, volume 1 (v. 1, fol. 158a).
Colophon, volume IV: تم الديوان بعون الملك المنان والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
Incipit, volume I: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال علي بن العباس بن جريج الرومي
Binding Note
Later half-bound western binding in red leather and blue marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
4

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/89a4fe12-5be3-4dda-ae4c-22f0f3540d55/manifest