Item Summary

Collections of over 350 song texts, organized by maqām and waṣlah; table of contents on leaves 1a-2a.

Descriptive Information

Title
سفينة الملك ونفيسة الفلك.
Transliterated Title
Safīnat al-mulk wa-nafīsat al-fulk.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 411H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbn999j21g
Publisher
[between 1850 and 1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1850-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
311 leaves : paper ; 214 x 140 (173 x 95) mm bound to 218 x 155 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 474 ; SII, 721.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 3b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 311 + ii ; catchwords ; paginated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning on leaf 2b ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; in 1-2 columns.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in good condition; some staining and smudging.
Incipit: حمدا لن حكم على اهل الهوى بالنوى والفراق فصاروا بحيث لو صاحوا باتحجاز لا سمعوا من في العراق.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in maroon leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muwashshah
Songs, Arabic
Arabs—Music
Folk songs, Arabic—Egypt—19th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Music
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
644

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b62eb272-3d35-44bd-b3e4-0a5bc66ced62/manifest