Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 125H.

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DS ID:

DS2515

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 125H.

Title:

al-Qism al-thānī min Yatīmat al-dahr fī shuʻarāʼ al-ʻaṣr /

Date:

1 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 May 5, 1666

sixth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 177 leaves : paper ; 199 x 137 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 203 x 150 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 177 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (circular with portrait?) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Marginal notes and summaries. On folio before title page is a table of contents. On title page are four verses of poetry about the Yatīmah. Folios 19, 28-115, and 141-171 are on different paper (no watermarks) and by a much earlier hand, probably of the XIVth century. In these sections, the biographee's names appear also in roundels in the margin in red or green ink.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 1 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī (fol. 177a).
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Ownership autographs on the title page include: Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Ḥanafī 1076 with his seal impression, Naṣr Allāh 1217 with his seal impression, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Furūḥī 1153, and ʻAlī ibn Jahīr? al-Ḥusaynī 1250 with his seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs (Provenance)

Biographies

Headbands

Stamps

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

Iraq

Arabic poetry

Poets, Arab

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963568553506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4810a389-9d39-476c-8713-bb277baa5152/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University