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كتاب مراتع الغزلان في وصف الغلمان الحسان / تأليف اذيب زمانه وفريد عصره واوانه محمد النواجي رحمه الله رحمتن واسعة
Kitāb Marātiʻ al-ghizlān fī waṣf al-ghilmān al-ḥisān / taʼlīf adhyab zamānihi wa-farīd ʻaṣrihi wa-awānihi Muḥammad al-Nawājī raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻatan.
1484
A collection of poems describing handsome youths.
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Item Summary
A collection of poems describing handsome youths.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب مراتع الغزلان في وصف الغلمان الحسان / تأليف اذيب زمانه وفريد عصره واوانه محمد النواجي رحمه الله رحمتن واسعة
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Marātiʻ al-ghizlān fī waṣf al-ghilmān al-ḥisān / taʼlīf adhyab zamānihi wa-farīd ʻaṣrihi wa-awānihi Muḥammad al-Nawājī raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻatan.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 14L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ms35t868t
- Publisher
- [1484]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1484
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 188, i leaves: paper ; 180 x 135 (117 x 90) mm.
- Provenance
- Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed Āl Biṭrīq al-Ḥusaynī Sibṭ ---?. Ownership statement signed Ibrāhīm Ḥasūn (?) dated 1138 H. on the margin of fol. 1b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 101
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with chain and laid lines visible (frame-ruled). On fol. 188a-b: Verses of poetry. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Several inscriptions, including ownership statements on fol. 1a. Mildewed.
- Copy completed on Yawm al-thulathā 28 Jumādá al-Awwal 889 (colophon, fol. 187b).
- Incipit: قال العبد الفقير ... محمد بن حسن بن علي النواجى الشافعى ... اما بعد حمد الله الذي خلق الانسان فى احسن تقويم ... فقد سالني بعض الاخوان ان اجمع له نبذة فى الحسان من الغلمان
- Explicit: لو لم تكن روضة للحسن او فلكا ما كان جمع فيك الغصن والقمر لكان هذا ابلغ فى المعنا وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
- Binding Note
- Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower cover, fore-edge flap and envelope-flap. Both covers have an elaborate blind-tooled panel, with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Vertical fillets link the central mandorla to an outer frame made of fillets, with a s-shape running pattern and a small floral stamp in the corners. Paper pastedowns.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 384
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9a6cbdd4-9ca2-48f9-a912-850af98312ff/manifest