Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• ʻArīf, Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• عريف، يحيى بن احمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 126H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Sayings [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of proverbs from pre-Islamic and Islamic times; sayings of prophets, kings, princes, poets and common people, Arabian and non-Arabian. Incomplete at the beginning.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 138 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; writing on top and bottom edge unclear ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Binding and some folios are loose.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Marginal notes.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Ramaḍān 1011 by Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArīf (fol. 138b).
• Title from colophon (fol. 138b).
• Beginning: کافل المجد وکافي الخلق
• Colophon: فرغ من کتابته العبد المذنب الضعيف يحيى ابن احمد بن محمد العريف رحم الله من دعا له ولمالکه وللناظر فيه بالخير والحسنى وذلك نصف شهر رمضان المبارك من شهور سنة احد عشر بعد الالف هجرية نبوية على مهاجرها افضل الصلوات والحمد ... امين رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Endbands. Pastedowns of white paper with block-pressed design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 944²⁷.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 454.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 220.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 186.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288166204

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