Item Summary

A notebook containing songs, memoranda, and accounts. About half of the manuscript contains folk songs, and the other half notes on the price of tobacco, expenses of the store, and accounts with other merchants. Some of the songs and notes are in Arabic.

Descriptive Information

Title
سفينه موالات.
Transliterated Title
Sefine-yi mevvalat.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1194H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5x21tw20w
Publisher
[between 1850 and 1899]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1850-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
31 leaves : paper ; 157 x 100 mm bound to 159 x 100 mm.
Provenance
Originally owned by Handali Sait bin eş-Şeriyi [?] Bazerbaşi. 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
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 156.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 31 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: Number of lines per page varies ; text runs parallel to either upper or lower cover.
Description: Written in several hands ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Contemporaneous binding in oblong or safinah format in blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Songs, Arabic
Songs, Turkish
Account books
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
70

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5db75c70-c1a6-4055-864a-7667e1276602/manifest