Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 158H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Contains

• Kafarqūqī, Yūsuf ibn Saʻīd, active 1564. Durar al-nuḥūr fī al-tawbah ilá al-malik al-ghafūr. [Browse]
• كفرقوقي، يوسف بن سعيد، active 1564. درر النحور في التوبة الى الملك الغفور. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of eulogies, stories, and descriptions in verse and prose containing the Kitāb Durar al-nuḥūr fī al-tawbah ilá al-malik al-ghafūr, being the Muʻashsharāt [decastiches] of Kamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn [Saʻīd ibn] ʻAlī al-Kafarqūqī al-Ṭuwāwī; a story about Ḥātim al-Aṣamm; al-Khiṣāl al-muthlīyah wa-al-fawāʼid al-munajjiyah from the works of the Shaykh Ibn Hilāl; an ode in praise of solitude by Sharaf al-Dīn al-Kātib; the story of Ibrāhīm ibn Adham and why he turned ascetic; the story of Ibrāhīm al-Junayd taken from Kitāb Zuhd al-mulūk; and the story of Sarī al-Saqaṭī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Stray writing on fol. 157b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 156 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 12-14 lines per page.
• Description: Headings in red, yellow and green ink ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition; stained throughout.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday, Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1068 (fol. 157a).
• Incipit: کتاب درر النحور في التوبة الى الملك الغفور مشتمل على معشرات الحروف من التقرب الى الرحيم ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخة هذا المجموع المبارك نهار الثلاثاء في شهرربيع الاخر من شهور سنة ثمانية وستين والف. ونستغفر الله من الذنوب والآثام والغلط والنسيان انه على ما يشاء قدير وبالاجابة کفيل جدير. تم وکمل

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Blind-tooled design and edging on flap. Orange paper pastedown. Multi-colored endbands. Cover apparently repaired.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 228.
• Durar al-Nuḥūr fī al-tawbah ilá al-malik al-ghafūr: Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3319⁹, 4347¹, 4348¹, 8883¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1368017394

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