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• Muslim scholars—Syria—Damascus—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Damascus (Syria)—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Damascus (Syria)—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sugar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

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Ibn Ṭūlūn, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1475-1546. Taʻrīf al-munkar min ḥāl al-sukkar. [Browse]

Summary note

Biographical dictionary of the learned men of Damascus. The volume contains also a short treatise by the same author on sugar as it is described in the ḥadīths and other texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title from title page is written in a later hand. The same title appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b) with no mention of the author.
• Physical description: 23 long lines per page; on some pages the text is written horizontally on a narrower portion of the page and continues vertically (see ff. 38b, 39a-b). Written in a small script in black ink with use of red ; ff. 100b and 101a are by a later hand. The names of the persons mentioned in the text are written in the margin by several hands in black, red and green ink; some of these names are also numbered in the margin using Arabic numerals. Paper with vertical laid lines visible; chain lines (apparently grouped by three) are visible on some leaves; frame-ruled (6 mm.). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Collation notes (collation statement fol. 105b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• At the end of the text another hand added a list of names and dates numbered in the margin and a portion of text (ff. 100b-101a). Ff. 101b-103a are blank, but on fol. 103b, there is a "Fāʻidah" written by the same hand as the main text.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي ميز هذه الامة ... الى يوم البحث والعشروبعد فهذا تعليق سميته عرف الزهرات في تفسير الكلمات الطيبات وهو ما اخرج النساي واللفظ له
• Explicit: لايوافق الشرع الشريف وهو كثير الادب محب لذوي الكمال

Binding note

Dark brown leather over pasteboards. The upper cover has a gold-tooled vertical central pattern enclosed in a frame formed of a single gold-tooled line, with a small gold-tooled motif in each of the inner corners. The outer frame is formed of blind-tooled lines and a running pattern. The lower cover has a blind-stamped central mandorla panel. The spine has been repaired. Modern pastedowns and endpapers.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-101a: ʻArf al-zaharāt fī tafsīr al-kalimāt al-ṭayyibāt / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn.
• 2. fol. 101b-103a: [Blank].
• 3. fol. 103b: Fāʼidah.
• 4. fol. 104a-105b: Taʻrīf al-munkar min ḥāl al-sukkar / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 702

Other title(s)

Taʻrīf al-munkar min ḥāl al-sukar.

OCLC

65465894

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