Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3Lq

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DS ID:

DS29612

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3Lq

Title:

Sharḥ Dīwān al-Mutanabbī / / شرح ديوان المتنبي /

Author:

Wāḥidī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1075 or 1076 / واحدي، ابو الحسن علي بن احمد، -1075 or 1076

Wāḥidī Nīsābūrī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ibn al-ʻImād, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Aḥmad, 1623-1679 / ابن العماد، عبد الحي بن احمد، 1623-1679

İbnü'l-İmad WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1600 and 1647

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (208, 174 leaves) : paper ; 244-289 x 162-167 (180-200 x 80-130) mm bound to 241-287 x 169-175 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (volume 1, fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes. Lines of verse and other inscriptions (v. 1, fol. 208a-b). Names of seventeen of the better known commentators on Dīwān al-Mutanabbī (v. 2, fol. 1a). Largely illegible titles also appears on lower edge of text blocks.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 208 + 174 ; catchwords (vol. 2 only) ; folation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (v. 1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 22-35 lines per page ; volume 2 is ruled.
Description: Headings in black with gold sprinkles or in green (v. 2) ; vowel signs ; each volume written in different hand, but volume 2 picks up immediately after volume 1 ; text commented upon written larger (v. 1) or in red (v. 2) ; vowel signs (vol. 1) ; folio 11 and the several folios after 203 are replacements, two of them tinted yellow (v. 1) ; watermarks (v. 2: three crescents) ; vol...
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1057 by Abū al-Falāḥ ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʻImād, known as Ibn al-ʻAskar. (v. 2, fol. 174a).
Ownership signatures: Sulaymān al-Maḥāsinī[?] dated 1 Rajab 1184 (v. 1, fol. 2a and v. 2, fol. 1a); obscured signature; seal impression (v. 1, fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Keyword:

Autographs

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Watermarks

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Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 916-965. Poems

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567083506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b437fbc3-6ccd-4ae1-aaaf-d30b254509ca/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University