• ديوان الابيوردي.
  • Dīwān al-Abīwardī.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 19H
Extent:
  • 70 leaves : paper ; 249 x 181 (181 x 107) mm bound to 251 x 183 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • Marginal notes. Title page is full of faded and overlapping inscriptions. MS comprises only a part of the complete poetical works of the author.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 70 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with double-red line between hemistitches.
  • Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (replacement folios only: coat-of-arms, three crescents and roman-alphabet letters "tre lune") ; MS in good condition, light staining. Folios 50, 51, 60, 61 and 70 are by a different hand and are a later replacement. Several folios have been mended.
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أما بعد حمد الله على نعمة غناء المراد ومنحة متصلة الامداد ...
  • Colophon: وقال يرثي الملك احمد بن ملکشاه رحمه الله. الموجود هنا مقدار نصف الديوان
Publisher:
  • [not after 1750]
Subject:
  • Abbasids—Poetry—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Poetry
  • Headbands (Binding)
  • Watermarks (Paper)
  • Autographs (Provenance)
Date:
  • 1600-1750
Author:
  • Abīwardī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1113
Abstract:
  • The ʻIrāqīyāt of al-Abīwardi, a poem dealing with al-ʻIrāq and containing youthful effusions and eulogies of ʻAbbāsid Caliphs and their ministers.
Creator:
  • Abīwardī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1113
  • ابيوردي، محمد بن احمد، -1113
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 19H
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcqn59qf98q
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 34.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7634.
  • Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3117.
  • Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 239.
Binding note:
  • Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Blue paper pastedowns. Endbands.
Provenance:
  • Signatures: Ismāʻīl al-Jamālī, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Zaʻīm[?] dated 1163 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 19H
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