Item Summary

A eulogy singing of the might and grandeur of monarchs who ruled over Ḥimyar. A copious historical commentary is appended.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الكتاب ذكر ملوك حمير / تصنيف محمد بن نشوان الحميري
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Kitāb Dhikr mulūk Ḥimyar / taṣnīf Muḥammad ibn Nashwān al-Ḥimyarī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 26H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccj82kk63c
Publisher
16 Jumādā [II] 1194 [June 19, 1780]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1780
Format
Manuscript
Extent
108 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (150 x 110) mm bound to 212 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 585.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9737.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 584.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 670.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 311.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Folios number 72 and 108 by a different hand. Only 123 verses of the ode are in MS. It is of value only as a comparatively unfalsified record of royal names.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 108 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13-26 lines per page.
Description: Red, yellow, green and black ink ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Decoration: Illuminated title page in red, yellow, and black (fol. 1a).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 16 Jumādā [?] 1194 by Saʻīd Ṣubḥ Allāh (fol. 108b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الامر جدًا وهو غير مزاح فانظر لنفسك صالحا باصاح ...
Colophon: تمت القصيدة النشوانية [و] شرحها. رحم الله ناضمها [ناظمها] وشارحها والناظر فيها وجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات ووالدينا واخواننا ومشايخنا في الدين. وکان الفراغ من نسخها وقت اذان العشاء في الليلة المعبر عنها صبح الاثنين بعد 16 شهر جمادا د[؟] سنة 1194 بقلم افقر عباد الله سعيد صبح الله
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Gold?-stamped mandorla with pendants on upper cover; blind-stamped and -tooled decorative edging on lower cover. Blind-stamped design on flap. Paper pastedown with block-stamped silver design inside upper cover. Apparently pieces re-used from three different bindings.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabia, Southern—History—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Ḥimyar (Yemen)—Kings and rulers—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
illuminated manuscripts
Gold tooled bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
229

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/7229652d-4e62-481a-b5a5-6c7ddd5e52a9/manifest