Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• حسيني، محمد بن محمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 156H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of wise sayings, proverbs, anecdotes and poems on religious, moral and social topics. Fol. 38b has a chart of Ottoman rulers.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 179 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Illuminated gilt headpiece. Fol. 1b and 2a are frame-ruled in double gold lines.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS contains some red, green and yellow paper ; watermarks (grapes, design incorporating a heart) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Layout: 13-32 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page occur a statement about the Caliph ʻUmar, a statement about telling the truth and another that the owner of the collection and its copyist is Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻAṭṭār al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1140 [1727/8]. After the colophon are six verses of poetry, and an amplification (takhmīs) by the shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī. On the inside of the front cover occur a statement by someone about his futile career in alchemy and several autographs of owners; and on the inside of the back cover, a statement about someoneʼs attempted trip from Damascus to Izmīr.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Ending: ومن لا اصل له لا يقدران يستر مکره
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. حمدًا لك يا من ابرزمن رياض قرايح الفصحاء

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ḥ̣ājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 516/7.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 226.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1289635759

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