Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Hadith [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 16L [Browse]

Contains

• Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan, -1153. Nathr al-laʼāliʼ. Persian. [Browse]
• طبرسي، الفضل بن الحسن، -1153. نثر اللآلي. الفارسية. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of spurious sayings of the Caliph ʻAlī with Persian translation in the margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 18 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 7 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; title written in gold ink ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الالف. إِيمان المرء يعرف بأيمانه
• Colophon: تم کتاب نثر اللآلي من کلام امير المومنين علي ابن ابى طالب عليه الکرامة والرضوان .مترجمة بالفارسي.هو المعين

Binding note

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

Language note

In Arabic with Persian translation.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Ṣafwat ibn Ḥājj Muḥammad (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 237.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 301.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8695/60.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425931

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