Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 8Hq

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DS ID:

DS28342

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 8Hq

Title:

Kitāb Jamharat ashʻār al-ʻArab fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām / / كتاب جمهرة اشعار العرب في الجاهلية والاسلام /

Arabic poetry

Scribe:

Ḥawshī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, active 18th century / حوشي، عبد الله بن صالح، active 18th century

Date:

20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 [June 29, 1793?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 116 leaves : paper ; 301 x 225 (235 x 165) mm bound to 295 x 220 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 4a).
Marginal notes in red and black. Two short poems by al-Shaykh al-Qīrāṭī, a poem addressed to a certain al-Ahdal, two poems by Aḥmad al-Khallī eulogizing the Prophet, nine verses in praise of the family of Muḥammad and an ode by Abū Qāsim al-Nāshirī before the title page (f. 1a-3b). Following the colophon are several odes: one by Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥujr al-Kindī, one by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Daʻdaʻ...
Collation: Paper; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-22 lines per page.
Description: Verse separators and overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet initials "FC" and "BA[?]"; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1207 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAl[ī] al-Ḥawshī (fol. 112b).
Ownership signature dated 1242 (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Headbands

Poetry

Blind tooled bindings

Autographs

Gold tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Arabic poetry

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963566993506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6d600f67-308d-4b89-983f-a26d66f3ba19/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University