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سفينة / عبد القادر الحلاق الكردي ابن عبد القادر الكردي.
Safīnah / ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥallāq al-Kurdī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kurdī.
1700-1834
Autograph copy of a collection of popular songs and poems with several musical measures. The MS falls into seven parts. The first is on the science of music (al-wasīqah); the second contains selections of choice poetry; the third is a takhmīs; the fourth contains songs in the dū-bayt measure; the fifth, muwashshaḥāt; the sixth, jazal; and the seventh, miscellaneous selections.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [not after 1834]
- People
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- Scribe
- Ḥallāq, ʻAbd al-Qādir
- Related Name
- حلاق، عبد القادر
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 111H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Autograph copy of a collection of popular songs and poems with several musical measures. The MS falls into seven parts. The first is on the science of music (al-wasīqah); the second contains selections of choice poetry; the third is a takhmīs; the fourth contains songs in the dū-bayt measure; the fifth, muwashshaḥāt; the sixth, jazal; and the seventh, miscellaneous selections.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- سفينة / عبد القادر الحلاق الكردي ابن عبد القادر الكردي.
- Transliterated Title
- Safīnah / ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥallāq al-Kurdī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kurdī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 111H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hm50v2347
- Publisher
- [not after 1834]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1834
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 116 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 243 x 117 (225 x 103) mm. bound to 240 x 117 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 164.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 115 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in red, purple and black ink (fol. 1b). Contains diagrams.
- Description: Headings and verse separators in red ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 22-36 lines per page ; text runs parallel with back of cover.
- Marginal notes. On the inside of the front cover and on back of the first page are several riddles in verse. The MS contains a number of Turkish musical measures. After the colophon is a statement by a later hand marking the end of the Safīnah. On the inside of the back cover are fifteen verses in praise of the family of Muḥammad, six verses on love, and eight verses in Persian.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from upper cover pastedown.
- Ending; نهارك مشغول وليلك نائم * وها کذ في الدنيا تعيش البهائم
- Incipit: ما شاءالله توکلت على الله. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي اطلع جملة من عباده
- Binding Note
- Binding in oblong or safīnah format in red leather and brown paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 240
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b9bb92b6-a5d3-42da-a3cb-d26eb7fc6293/manifest