Item Summary

An anthology containing poems by various authors such as Ibn al-Fāriḍ 576-632 [1180/1-1234/5], Ibn ʻArabī 560-638 [1165-1240], selections from his book Tarjumān al-Ashwāq, from Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī 677-750 [1278-1349/50], Ibn al-Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī 767-837 [1365/6-1434] and others.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموع لطيف حاوي من کل شعر ظريف وفيه من کلام ابن الدرا وترجمان الاشواق.
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻ laṭīf ḥāwī min kull shiʻr ẓarīf wa-fīhi min kalām Ibn al-Darrā wa-Turjumān al-ashwāq.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 78H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5m60r248c
Language
Arabic
Extent
50 leaves : paper ; 195 x 125 (140-160 x 90-100) mm. bound to 194 x 128 mm.
Provenance
On the title page is the autograph of an owner dated 1237 [1822]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 148.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description Rubrications and verse separators in red on fols. 1-23 ; MS is written in different hands ; MS in fair condition; stained with dampness; worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 10-28 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; fols. 1-19 frame-ruled in red.
Ms. codex.
On the page after the colophon and on the five folios following are some charms, medical prescriptions, several verses of love poetry, two verses from the Qurʼān, several verses of other poetry, and additional writing.
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
Ending: لکن اغض الطرف منه حيث ما * شرف الحما بتزاحم الرقباء
Incipit: نجدى سيکاه. يا ترى هل لنا يعود * قمر حل في ورود
Binding Note
Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and badly-worn paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

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/94325a3a-c4bf-437e-8e84-ea8005f191a4/manifest