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اطباق الذهب
Aṭbāq al-dhahab.
Author
Iṣfahānī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh, -1203 or 1204
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اصفهاني، عبد المؤمن بن هبة الله
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[13--?]
Description
68 leaves : paper ; 152 x 115 (126 x 85) mm. bound to 155 x 120 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar 1075-1144
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Aṭwāq al-dhahab fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-khuṭab
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Islamic sermons, Arabic
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Early works to 1800
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Shīʻah
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Sermons
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic literature, Arabic
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Related name
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
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Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥibb ʻAlī, active 17th century
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Hamadhānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, -1885 or 1886
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Sermons
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Summary note
Moral treatise, being an imitation of Abū al-Qāsim al-Zamakhsharī's Aṭwāq al-dhahab (GAL). Incomplete at end, comprising the text up to maqālah 98.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 5b, l. 3).
13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for punctuation and re-inking of the headings. Dark cream paper with no lines visible. Interlinear annotations (mostly Persian translation of the text). Fol. 1-2 and 67-68: fly-leaves (European glazed paper with watermark). Fol. 67-68: blank, except inscription on fol. 68b. Fol. 3a seems to be a fly-leaf pasted on an original leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. On a piece of paper pasted on fol. 68b: Inscription with the mention of the title and inscription "Raqm 24" in Arabic script.
According to R. Mach, copied in the 8th cent. H.
Collation: Paper ; first quire difficult to determine. From fol. 9a: 1-7⁸ + 2 (fol. 65-66); quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "al-thānī", see fol. 9a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: الهمّ انّا نحمدك على ما اسبلت من جلابيب كرمك ... [4أ] ... وبعد فقد اشار اليّ ولي من اولياء الله مدة قلادة الرقاب
Explicit: \\والاخرى امة مريدة فاجعل للحدّة [...] لها قسمين وللامة قسماً فانّ لها فى كتاب
Binding note
Stiffened red leather with similar blind tooling on the upper and lower covers: single fillet frame enclosed in an outer frame made of fillets and a running s-shape pattern. Paper pastedowns.
Provenance
Autograph dedication by Muḥammad Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī to Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī ; ownership statement by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hamadānī (fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4312
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 292 (XVI/Nachahmungen. a)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 512 (XVII/Nachahmungen. a)
OCLC
70201213
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