Item Summary

A collection of poems by various authors, containing an incomplete section of riddles, a section on al-ghilmān wa-al-jawāri al-ḥisān (young boys and fair maids), another on flowers and wine, one on anecdotes and one on beauty. Incomplete at both the beginning and the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
[مجموعة الغاز ونوادر].
Transliterated Title
[Majmūʻat alghāz wa-nawādir].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 105H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r781wr65n
Publisher
[13--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
58 leaves : paper ; 165 x 124 (113 x 88) mm. bound to 168 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 160.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Full vowel signs ; rubricated ; verse separators in red ; some headings in green ; MS may belong to the XIV century ; folios 48 to 58 are by a different hand ; MS in poor condition, many folios loose, staining.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ending: يا غادة يمحا الظلام بنورها * زوري فتى اودت به البرحاء
Incipit: وها هنا المقلمة فيفطن لذلك والله اعلم. غيره
Binding Note
Covered in dark blue paper taken from a German account book.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Riddles, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
124

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/826f5245-9f67-4de7-85b7-cd4fd27a07f1/manifest