- كتاب الحماسة / تأليف ابي تمام حبيب بن اوس الطايي.
- Language:
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- Arabic
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
- Extent:
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- 127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- 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:
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- al-Qāhirah, Jumādá al-Akhir 588 [June/July 1192]
- Subject:
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- Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Blind tooled bindings
- Autographs
- Stamps
- Date:
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- 1192
- Author:
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- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
- Abstract:
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- A collection of poems on bravery in war.
- Creator:
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- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
- ابو تمام حبيب بن اوس الطائي، active 808-842
- Contributor:
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- اسدي، الحسين بن مضر، active 12th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
- Scribe:
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- Asadī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar, active 12th century
- Collections:
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- Middle East Manuscripts
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Edm rights:
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dczw12zh32k
- Donor:
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- Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- References:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- Location:
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- Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
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