Item Summary

Two poetry collections by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ديوان ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Dīwān ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 54H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8c97m2404
Publisher
1852.
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1852
Format
Manuscript
Extent
438 leaves : paper ; 226 x 179 (155-170 x 120) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 84, 85.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 248/9; IV, p. 291
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7851-3.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3205; 3953⁴.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1085.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2300.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 498¹; 498².
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-403b: Kitāb Dīwān / Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā ibn Abī al-Qasim al-Ḥillī al-Tanbasī. A collection of original poems divided into 12 divisions: (1) Of boasting, bravery in war and inspiration to leadership, (2) of eulogy, thanksgiving and felicitation, (3) on hunting and description, (4) on brotherhood and correspondence, (5) of elegy and condolence, (6) on love, (7) on wine, (8) of complaint, (9) on gifts, (10) on paradoxes, (11) anecdotes and satire, (12) on literature and asceticism.
2. fol. 404b-438a: Hādhā Kitāb Durar al-nuḥūd fī imtidāḥ al-Malik al-Manṣūr / lil-Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī. A collection of original poems of eulogy of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Abū al-Fatḥ Ghāzī al-Urtuqī, who reigned 693-712 [1293/4-1312], arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 438, i ; catchwords ; pagination in ink and pencil using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Dīwān] Copied 13 Tammūz 1852 by Niqūlā Mudawwar (fol. 403b)
Incipit: [ديوان] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي علم الانسان البيان ومن عليه ... وبعد فانى كنت قبل ان اشب عن الطوق -- [کتاب درر النحور] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ... قافية الالف. قال رحمه الله. ابت الوصال مخافة الرقباء
Colophon: [ديوان] تم الديوان بعناية الرب القدير المنّان بيد کاتبه وذلك في 13 تموز سنة 1852 وهوبرسم مالکه لنفسه الخواجه نقولا مدوّر. تم -- [کتاب درر النحور] قد تمت القصايد الارتقيات ولله المجد لا يتم في الارضون والسموات. م
Binding Note
Unbound. Sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Malik al-Manṣūr, Najm al-Dīn Ghāzī -1312—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
876

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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