Item Summary

A collection of three anthologies.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الديوان. ويليه الملخص المفيد.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Dīwān. Wa-yalīhi al-Mulakhkhaṣ al-mufīd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 84Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckh04f2542
Publisher
[18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 294 x 208 (85-230 x 118-125) mm bound to 300 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Zumar ibn Ḥalām[?] dated [1]287 (f. 1a); Ibrāhīm ibn Abū ... al-Kawkabānī (f. 4a); Muḥammad ibn Aḥsan ibn Muḥammad al-Aḥ..[?] dated 1247, Muḥammad al-Daḥfash dated 1263?, other obscured signatures, one dated 1271 (f. 5a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 124, 178, 743.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 5a-50a: Kitāb al-Qawl al-ḥasan min naẓm al-Ḥusayn / wa-huwa Dīwān al-Mawlá al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Rabb. A collection of the original poems of a descendant of ʻAlī; mostly eulogies of contemporary celebrities, riddles, wisdom sayings and correspondence.
2. fol. 51a-123b: Hādhā al-Mulakhkhaṣ al-mufīd al-musammā Jawāhir al-ʻIqd al-farīd / taʼlīf Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ṣiddīq al-Namāzī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī. A redaction of al-ʻIqd al-Farīd, the famous anthology of Ibn ʻAbd Rabbihi. It "contains something on everything". After the colophon are three verses of poetry by a later hand.
3. fol. 124a-135b: Hādhihi al-Ḥikāyāt min Kitāb al-Muqtaraḥ fī jawāmiʻ al-mulaḥ / taʼlīf Bahā al-Dīn Qarāqūsh. Selections by an unknown compiler from a story book ascribed to al-Amīr Qarāqūsh, 597 [1201], the freedman of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin) or, according to another account, of his uncle Shīrkūh. The stories refer mostly to well-known Muslim characters. After the colophon is a quotation said to be from Jamʻ al-ṣiḥāḥ [Jāmiʻ al-uṣūl] of Ibn al-Athīr 544-606 [1149/50-1209/10], stating the names of those of the Companions who spoke after they were dead. Compiled under the care of and subsidized by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Mahdī al-Sharafi.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Extract from Tāj al-Dīn al-Sinjārī al-Makkī (fol. 1a). Poetry and signatures with dates 1247 and 1259 (fol. 4a-b). Lines of verse from ʻImād al-Dīn Muḥammad Qāsim Nāṣir al-Dīn dated 1254 (fol. 5a)
Collation: Paper ; fol. 135 + iii ; catchwords ; fol. 51-123 also foliated in ink as 1-83 using Hindu-Arabic numberals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-20 lines per page in two columns ; first work frame-ruled in black.
Description: Headings in black, yellow or red ; some paper of first work tinted red, yellow or blue ; watermarks (later endpapers: Pro patria with roman-alphabet letters "JH" "J. Hessels"; text: two types of paper, some watermarked with three crescents and countermarked with roman-alphabet initials and either a trefoil or a cross) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Several pages of first work have block-pressed silver designs of varying patterns, often on tinted paper
Origin: [Hādhihi al-Ḥikāyāt] According to colophon copy completed [1] Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1132 (fol. 135b).
Incipit: [القول الحسن] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل النفوس الصحيحة ... اما بعد فانى اجبب ان ا..ت شعر مولانا ... -- [جواهر العقد الفريد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل نورا يهتدى به ... اما بعد فان كتاب العقد الفريد كتاب عظيم وقعه ... -- [حکايات من کتاب المقترح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. حکى الصولي قال ...
Colophon: [القول الحسن] تم الکتاب المعظم بعناية الفقيه المکرم محب الال الکرام وخلف الوزرى [الوزراء] الاعلام ضياء الدين يوسف بن مهدي الشرفي حماه الله تعالى ووقاه عن جميع المکاره بوقايته -- [جواهر العقد الفريد] انتهى ما يسر الله تلخيصه من جواهر العقد الفريد وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم -- [حکايات من کتاب المقترح] تم الکتاب بحمد الله. ما نقل من کتاب المقترح والحمد لله اولا وآخرا وذلك بعناية الفقيه الافضل الاکمل الاوحد ضياء الدين وخلاصة ... يوسف بن مهدي محمد الشرفي حماه الله تعالى. بتاريخ يوم السبت غرة شهر ربيع الاخر سنة 1132
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Spine repaired with red leather. Upper cover is loose.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—750-1258
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Colored papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
288

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/a7bf2b70-977b-4294-aa21-6a67a0984411/manifest