al-Maḥāsin al-mujtamaʻah fī faḍl faḍāyil al-khulafāʼ al-arbaʻah - Ṣaffūrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān; ʻAlī Dhīb ibn Muḥammad; Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961; Princeton University. Library (1704)
A brief but thorough treatment of the characteristics and virtues of the four Orthodox caliphs.
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).
Keywords: Caliphs -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Caliphs; Manuscripts, Arabic; New Jersey -- Princeton; Biographies; Early works; Watermarks