Item Summary

A collection of original poems including eulogies, elegies, felicitation and correspondence by Safarjalānī. A collection of original poems of eulogy and on love and wine arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes by Bābī. The missing third collection of poems by Ibn al-Naḥḥās appears to be Princeton's Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 76H which carries the same ownership signatures.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا مجموع فيه ثلاث دواوين : ديوان السفرجلاني وديوان البابي وديوان ابن النحاس.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā majmūʻ fīhi thalāth dawāwīn : Dīwān al-Safarjalānī wa-Dīwān al-Bābī wa-Dīwān Ibn al-Naḥḥās.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 80H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gh93h811s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1729
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 205 x 137 (150 x 76) mm. bound to 215 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures on collective title page (fol. 2a): Jaʻfar Muḥyī Qādirī dated 1219 with his seal impression, and ʻAlī, Nāʼib al-Ḥaram dated [1]263. Three other stamp impressions are obliterated. Ownership signatures of second work (fol. 33a): obscured name dated 1219 followed by ʻAlī, Nāʼib al-Ḥaram dated [1]263 (fol. 33a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8010.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 277; II, p. 279.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 123, 126.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2324.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2b-32b: Dīwān / Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Safarjilānī.
2. fol. 33a-72b: Dīwān / Muṣṭafá Afandī al-Bābī.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, orange, green and black (fol. 2b). Frame-ruled in gold on fol. 2b and 3a.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (grapes, crown, roman-alphabet letters?) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the folio before the title page occur 3 verses of poetry, the date of the death of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī, a statement by al-Dhahabī about al-Safarjalānī. It is evident from the colophon of the first work that MS was copied for Muḥammad Afandī al-Qādirī al-Kīlānī.
Ms. codex.
Origin: [Dīwān al-Safarjilānī] According to colophon copied Jumādá II 1141 for Muḥammad Afandī al-Qādirī al-Kīlānī (fol. 32b).
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Colophon: [ديوان السفرجلاني] قدتم الديوان الميمون برسم حضرة سيدنا ومولانا فخر الافاضل وقرة عين الاماثل المولى المحترم جناب السيد محمد افندي القادري الکيلاني ابقى الله وجوده وادام سعوده. تحريرا في شهر جمادى الثاني من شهور سنة 1141 والحمد لله وحده ; [ديوان البابي] انتهى
Incipit: [ديوان السفرجلاني] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ونصلي ونسلم على الرسول الاکرم ; [ديوان البابي] لفخر الموالي فريد دهره امام الادب والقريض المرحوم مصطفى افندي البابي
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and brown spotted paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

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/56916dd5-8613-4f22-b82a-2e984b257e65/manifest