• ديوان.
  • [Dīwān]

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18H
Extent:
  • 72 leaves : paper ; 214 x 149 (135 x 90) mm bound to 215 x 1554 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Marginal glosses and one marginal note on folio 61. It is evident from the introduction that Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālawayh collected this dīwān.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 21 lines per page ; in two columns with separation between hemistitches.
  • Description: Rubricated ; blue paper ; MS in very good condition.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-Marṣafī (fol. 72a).
  • Incipit: وعلنه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وعليه اعتمادي. قال ابو عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن احمد بن خالوية ...
  • Colophon: تم على يد کاتبه محمد المرصفي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الامي وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تم
Publisher:
  • [19th century?]
Subject:
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Poetry
  • Headbands (Binding)
  • Colored papers (Paper)
Date:
  • 1800-1899
Author:
  • Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī, al-Ḥārith ibn Saʻīd, 932-968
Abstract:
  • A collection of original poems distinguished by a strongly personal tone. They are to a certain extent a diary of the authorʼs adventures.
Creator:
  • Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī, al-Ḥārith ibn Saʻīd, 932-968
  • ابو فراس الحمداني، الحارث بن سعيد، 932-968
Contributor:
  • مرصفي، محمد
  • ابن خالويه، حسين بن احمد، -980 or 981
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18H
Scribe:
  • Marṣafī, Muḥammad
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcvd66w987b
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 31.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7580/1.
  • Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, 1298⁵.
Binding note:
  • Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
Provenance:
  • Ownership signature of al-Shaykh Ḥasanayn (fol. 72a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18H
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Compiler:
  • Ibn Khālawayh, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, -980 or 981