Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
[Collection of Arabic prose and poetry].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[18--?]
Description
174 leaves : paper ; 187 x 115 mm. bound to 193 x 122 mm.
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 762
Browse related items
Reading Room Request
Details
Subject(s)
Letter writing, Arabic
[Browse]
Arabic poetry
—
To 622
[Browse]
Arabic poetry
—
13th century
[Browse]
Christian poetry, Arabic
[Browse]
Folklore
—
Arab countries
[Browse]
Manuscripts, Arabic
—
New Jersey
—
Princeton
[Browse]
Related name
ابن الفارض، عمر بن علي، 1181 or 1182-1235
[Browse]
سبيع، يوسف اسبر
[Browse]
خوري، يوسف
[Browse]
عنترة بن شداد، 6th cent
[Browse]
Contains
Bāsīl, Ilyās Faraj.
Raghbat al-sāʾil fī inshāʾ al-rasāʾil.
[Browse]
باسيل، الياس فرج.
رغبة السائل في انشاء الرسائل.
[Browse]
Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, 1181 or 1182-1235.
Selections.
[Browse]
Sabīʻ, Yūsuf Asbar.
Selections.
[Browse]
Khūrī, Yūsuf.
Selections.
[Browse]
ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād, 6th cent.
Selections.
[Browse]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 15-17 lines per page; written in ruqʻah script in dark blue ink on beige paper. Poetry in two columns. Paginated in Arabic numerals in pencil. Text likely calligraphed by Ilyās Faraj Bāsīl. Index for text 1 on fol. 101b; index for remainder of texts on fol. 174b.
Binding note
Contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards.
Language note
Arabic.
Contents
1. fol. 1a-101b: Raghbat al-sāʾil fī inshāʾ al-rasāʾil / Ilyās Faraj Bāsīl.
2. fol. 102a-103b: [blank]
3. fol. 104a-113a: Kitābat baʻḍ ashʻār majmūʻah.
4. fol. 113b-137a: Ashʻār min al-Fāriḍ / Ibn al-Fāriḍ.
5. fol. 137b-138b: [Elegiac poem for Mīkhāʾīl Ḥabīlā] / Yūsuf Asbar al-Sabīʻ.
6. fol. 138b-141b: Shiʻr Yūsuf al-Khūrī yadhummu bi-hi millat al-Rūm /Yūsuf al-Khūrī.
7. fol. 141b-146a: Wa-qāla ayḍan shiʻr ʻalá ṣalb al-Masīḥ / Yūsuf al-Khūrī.
8. fol. 146b-158a: Qaṣīdat ʻAntar alladhī ʻallaqahā ʻalá al-Bayt al-Ḥarām / ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād.
9. fol. 158b-159b: [blank]
10. fol. 160a-174a: Qiṣṣat Sayf al-Masīḥ wa-mā jará lahu.
Show 7 more Contents items
Source acquisition
Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 29/07/2010 (2011-16).
References
Brockelmann, GAL, SII, 752.
Other title(s)
Kitābat baʻḍ ashʻār majmūʻah.
كتابة بعض اشعار مجموعة.
Qiṣṣat Sayf al-Masīḥ wa-mā jará lahu.
قصة سيف المسيح وما جرى له.
OCLC
655269420
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information