Kitāb Tuḥfat al-fuqahāʼ nuẓima min al-Fawāʼid - Khaṭīb, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī, fl. 1595.; Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī, active 1583. (1673)
Collection of mnemonic verses and versified rules from various disciplines in fourteen chapters (bāb, see table of contents fol. 2b-3a). The author seems to be identical with Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Bukhārī ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū al-Maʻālī al-Makkī, the author of Ṭirāz al-manqūsh fī maḥāsin al-Ḥubūsh (GAL, II, 385; SII, 519; Zirikli, VI, 184), listed as Khaṭīb al-Madīnah in Hadiyat al-ʻĀrifīn (2, 256).
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol.1a).
16 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark. Quinions. Collation notes by another hand (see fol. 5a, 30a). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Last fol. damaged.
Copy completed in Jum[ādá]? 1084 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad (colophon, fol. 99, only partly extant due to damage to the paper).
Collation: Paper, fol. 99 ; 1-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰ (-1, after fol. 99) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Keywords: Didactic poetry, Arabic -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 17th century