Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Majūlī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm , active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• مجولي، محمد بن عبد الكريم ، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 129H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of proverbs, wise sayings, tales and poetry on moral and social matters.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 125 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. At top of several folios occurs the shahādah. On the page following the title page is a table of contents.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 3 Shawwāl 1009 by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Majūlī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 125a).
• Title from title page (fol.1a ).
• Colophon: کتبه الفقير الحقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير سعد الدين بن محمد بن عبدالکريم المجولي الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين وکان الفراغ منه في يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث شهر شوال من سنة تسع بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية والله اعلم تم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. باب الشکر قال رسول الله

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 106.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 726.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 213.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 193.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288343302

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