Item Summary

A collection of poems on bravery in war.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الحماسة / تأليف ابي تمام حبيب بن اوس الطايي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah / taʼlīf Abī Tamām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāyī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczw12zh32k
Publisher
al-Qāhirah, Jumādá al-Akhir 588 [June/July 1192]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1192
Format
Manuscript
Extent
127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated [1] 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī[?] dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 9.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2.
Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.
Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر لو كنت .. مازن لم تسبح ابلي بنو اللقيطه ...
Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسين بن مُضر ابن الحسين الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانين وخمسماية
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
271

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/cd3166f1-299d-426b-8529-b059e06b6762/manifest