• كتاب الحماسة / تأليف ابي تمام حبيب بن اوس الطايي.
  • Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah / taʼlīf Abī Tamām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāyī.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
Extent:
  • 127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17 lines per page.
  • Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر لو كنت .. مازن لم تسبح ابلي بنو اللقيطه ...
  • Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسين بن مُضر ابن الحسين الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانين وخمسماية
Publisher:
  • al-Qāhirah, Jumādá al-Akhir 588 [June/July 1192]
Subject:
  • Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
  • Autographs (Provenance)
  • Stamps (Provenance)
Date:
  • 1192
Author:
  • Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
Abstract:
  • A collection of poems on bravery in war.
Creator:
  • Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
  • ابو تمام حبيب بن اوس الطائي، active 808-842
Contributor:
  • اسدي، الحسين بن مضر، active 12th century
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
Scribe:
  • Asadī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar, active 12th century
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dczw12zh32k
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 9.
  • Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2.
  • Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6.
  • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.
Binding note:
  • Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.
Provenance:
  • Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated [1] 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī[?] dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
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