Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb Nasīm al-ṣabā ...
كتاب نسيم الصبا

Authors

• Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī, Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻUmar, 1310-1377
  ابن حبيب الحلبي، بدر الدين الحسن بن عمر،

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 292
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13720582
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085517415
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_292.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13720582

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1763

Summary

Copy of Nasīm al-ṣabā, a collection of poetry segments and couplets on a variety of topics, followed by a section of blurbs about the writings of six well-known authors, and finishing with a collection of poetry with short introductions.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

69 leaves : 197 x 145 (155 x 90) mm, bound to 197 x 150 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Paperboard cover with plain paper sides and red leather spine.

Layout

21 lines per page.

Decoration

black and red ink.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Catchwords each verso, lower left.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Sufism--Early works to 1800
• Arabic literature--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Poems

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitāb nasīm āl-ṣabā
• fol. 56r — Taqrīẓāt badīʿah
• fol. 62v — [Poetry selections]

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"