المحاسن المجتمعة في فضل فضايل الخلفاء الاربعة / للشيخ علي الصفوري.

al-Maḥāsin al-mujtamaʻah fī faḍl faḍāyil al-khulafāʼ al-arbaʻah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Ṣaffūrī.

Author
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
1 Muḥarram 1116 [May 6, 1704]
Description
62 leaves : paper ; 206 x 147 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 206 x 155 mm.

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Summary note
A brief but thorough treatment of the characteristics and virtues of the four Orthodox caliphs.
Notes
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 62 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Description: Rubricated ; occasional vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition but loose and several folios are worm-eaten or mended. Considerable staining.
  • Layout: 27 lines per page ; ruled.
  • Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Six lines of verse follow the colophon.
  • Ms. codex.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 1 Muḥarram 1116 by ʻAlī Dhīb ibn Muḥammad [name added in different ink] (fol. 62a).
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • Colophon: وقد تم هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب علي يد افقر العباد ...علي ذيب ابن محمد غفر الله تعالى له ولوالديه ووالد والديه والمسلمين اجمعين يا رب العالمين في غرة شهر محرم وكان ذلك ليلة الثلاثا من شهور سنة ستة عشر وماية والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها ازكى الصلاة واتم السلام وان تجد عبيب فسد ... جل من لا فيه عبيب وعلا
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اتقن ما صنعه واحسن وجود ما اخترعه
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 230.
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 696.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1295014004
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