Item Summary

Twenty-nine pentastichs, each rhyming in a different letter of the Arabic alphabet; containing mostly advice and counsel of a religious nature.

Descriptive Information

Title
[هذا قصيده قسطلانى]
Transliterated Title
[Hāz̲ā Qaṣīdah-i Qasṭallānī]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 65H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p26775148
Publisher
1136 [1723 or 1724]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1723
Format
Manuscript
Extent
16 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (156 x 83) mm. bound to 214 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Title page has autograph of an owner (Ismāʻīl) and a seal impression with: ... ʻalá ... fī kull al-umūr tasʻad. A second ownernship statement mentions al-Sayyid al-Aḥmadī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 108.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Headings in red ; verse separators in red ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 5 lines per page with interlinear glosses.
Marginal and interlinear glosses.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1136 (fol. 16a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت القصيدة المخمسات في سنة سة [ست] وثلثين ومائة والف
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. تبارك ذوالعلى والکبرياء * تفرد بالجلال وبالبقاء
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Simple blind tooling line decoration on cover. Red paper doublures with gold block-pressed floral pattern.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Doublures
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
40

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f848c337-a4ef-43dd-be0a-50fa6d5a277a/manifest