Item Summary

Autograph copy of original poems of eulogy, travel, and prayer arranged in alphabetical order of their rhyme.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا ديوان فتح الله البيلوني.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Dīwān Fatḥ Allāh al-Baylūnī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 75H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2v23w396k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1618
Extent
99 leaves : paper ; 212 x 150 (160 x 90) mm. bound to 212 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-Iṣbaḥī 1256, Ḥusayn al-Wafāʼī 1150, [name obscured] 1232 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7967.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3249.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 116.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fols. i + 99 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; green flyleaves glued to initial and final folios of text block ; illegible title on lower edge of MS ; MS in good condition, paper cover is badly worn.
Layout: 15-25 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal glosses. Title page bears three verses of poetry by the author and quotations of poetry of unknown authorship. On page after colophon and on three following folios are a number of odes by the author not included in the dīwān, all bearing the date 1026 [1617].
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 27 Shawwāl 1027 (fol. 96a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وسلم ابداً في ليلة الاربعاء 27 شوال سنة 1027 ببرکة الحاج [الحج] ليلة سفر الرکب او صلهم الله سالمين وتقبلها بجاه سيد المرسلين صلى الله وسلم عليه وعليهم اجمعين.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Covers cut away to reveal blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on both covers. Cutaway on flap to reveal rounded blind-stamped design.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
212

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/9f57a91e-08ed-4e0a-9662-0d6670fb848b/manifest