Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 148H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of sayings, anecdotes, historical extracts and miscellaneous notices divided into five divisions: (1) on the virtue of learning and literature, (2) on love and the days of youth, (3) on kings and rulers, letters and correspondence, (4) anecdotes selected from history and striking events, and (5) on various arts and other subjects. Incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 111 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25-32 lines per page.
• Description: Headings in indigo and red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله المتفضل المنعم المنّان الذى خلق الانسان وعلمه البيان ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب جمعته من كتب كثيرة فيه من الفرائد العجائب
• Ending: وقيل محادثة السفهاء والحمقاء تورث سوء الخلق وقال الحريري رحمه الله تعالى

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central design and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Not currently sewn.

Provenance

Signature inside upper cover: Muṣṭafá al-Naqqāsh dated 24 Muḥarram 1260. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 216.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1150.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8420.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3556.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420500

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