مجموعة لطيفة تشتمل على سجع فايق ونظم رايق واخبار وغرر اسمار.

Majmūʻah laṭīfah tashtamilu ʻalá sajʻ fāyiq wa-naẓm rāyiq wa-akhbār wa-ghurar asmār / jamaʻahā Muḥammad al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣāliḥī.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
5 Jumādá I 1284 [September 4, 1867]
Description
(1), 210, (1) leaves : paper ; 228 x 157 (150 x 85) mm. bound to 228 x 164 mm.

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Summary note
A collection of poems, proverbs, wise sayings and stories by various authors.
Notes
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 210 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-21 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (moon inside a shield, roman-alphabet letters "A G" ) ; MS in excellent condition, spine partially detached.
  • Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
  • Marginal notes and glosses in red and black. On the folio before the title page are four verses of poetry, two by Ḥusayn al-Marṣafī, 1308 [1890/1] and the other two by another.
  • Ms. codex.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 5 Jumādá I 1284 by Ḥasanayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Miṣrī (fol. 210b).
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • Colophon: انتهى. کتبه لنفسه الفقير لمولاه الکريم حسنين بن محمد بن مصطفى المصري وکان نجاز کتابته صبيحة يوم الاربعاء خامس ايام خلت من جمادى الاولى سنه 1284 هجرية وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا کثيرا. ان تجد عيبا فسد الخللا * جلّ من لافيه عيب وعلا
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اجرى في بحار الافکار سفينة الفصاحة
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Blind-tooled frame and edging. Blind-stamped motif and blind-tooled edging on flap. Endbands. Pastedowns and flyleaf are blue paper with block-stamped design in black and white.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 230.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1289789333
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