Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 405B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS28343

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 405B

Title:

Luzūm mā lā yalzam / لزوم ما لا ىلزم

Islamic poetry

Author:

Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057

al-Ma'arri WIKIDATA

Date:

1600-1699

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Copied A.H. 1013 [A.D. 1605] by ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ḥusayn al-Jazarī.
Fols. 200; 20.5 x 14 cm.; written surface 17.5 x 7.2 cm.; 31 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords.
A collection of poems mostly of philosophical import, arranged in alphabetical order.
Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... قال ابوالعلاء ... المعري رهن المحبسىن ... اني انشأت ابنىة اوزان توخىت فىها صدق الکلمة ونزهتها عن الکذب
Colophon: وکان الفراغ منه ىوم الجمعة المبارك في اواخر شهر شعبان من شهور سنة ثلث عشر بعد الالف على ىد افقر الورى الى رحمة الله تعالى حسىن بن احمد بن حسىن الجزري غفرالله له ولوالدىه ولجمىع المسلمىن وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعىن والحمد لله وحده. م
Marginal notes; MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; gilt stamped on cover and flap.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 309; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 298; Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1050.
Edited and translated by Kremer, ZDMG, vol. XXIX (1875), pp. 304-12; XXX (1876), pp. 40-52; XXXI (1877), pp. 471-83. See also Goldziher ib., vol. XXIX (1875), p. 637.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Poetry

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567103506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University