Item Summary

Pre-Islamic and Islamic poetry: al-Sumūṭ (al-Muʻallaqāt), al-Mujamharāt, al-Mutanaqqayāt [al-Muntaqayāt], ʻUyūn al-Marāthī, al-Mashūbāt and al-Mulḥamāt.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جمهرة اشعار العرب في الجاهلية والاسلام / تأليف ابي زيد محمد بن الخطاب القرشي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām / taʼlīf Abī Zayd Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Qurashī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 8Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv405sp18p
Publisher
20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 [June 29, 1793?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1793
Format
Manuscript
Extent
116 leaves : paper ; 301 x 225 (235 x 165) mm bound to 295 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature dated 1242 (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 12.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 116.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1063, 1662.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1107.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 608/9.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 192
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 4a).
Marginal notes in red and black. Two short poems by al-Shaykh al-Qīrāṭī, a poem addressed to a certain al-Ahdal, two poems by Aḥmad al-Khallī eulogizing the Prophet, nine verses in praise of the family of Muḥammad and an ode by Abū Qāsim al-Nāshirī before the title page (f. 1a-3b). Following the colophon are several odes: one by Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr al-Kindī, one by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Daʻdaʻ al-Saʻdī in praise of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāsiʻ al-Qurashī with a tārīkh for 1208 [1793], another ode eulogizing the same by Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Hannād, a eulogy of the Prophet by ʻAbd al-Qādir, governor of Kawkabān, and an ode dated 1210 [1795] (f. 113a-116b).
Collation: Paper; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-22 lines per page.
Description: Verse separators and overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet initials "FC" and "BA[?]"; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAl[ī] al-Ḥawshī (fol. 112b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين فمن ذلك ما حدثنا به المفضل بن محمدالضبي باسناد عن عبد الله بن عباس قال قدم نافع بن الازرق ...
Colophon: بعناية سهر المالك صفي الاسلام والدين احمد عبد الواسع القرشي حفظه الله. تمت جمهرة اشعار العرب بحمد الله ومنه وکر[مه] بعد ظهر نهار الاحد عشرين شهر القعدة الحرام سنة 1207 بخط اسير ذنبه ورهين کتبه الفقير اليه تعالى عبد الله بن صلاح بن علي الحوشي وفقه الله تعالى وغفر له ولوالديه ولمالکها ولوالديه امين. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Five gold-stamped mandorlas, a frame of gold dot-punched circles, and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
240

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/6d600f67-308d-4b89-983f-a26d66f3ba19/manifest