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[Collection of Arabic tales]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Description
35 leaves : paper ; 211 x 150 (145 x 90) mm. bound to 209 x 157 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 172H
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Subject(s)
Folk literature, Arabic
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 172H
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Summary note
A collection of stories containing: the story of the Shaykh al-Ḥadabī and Hārūn al-Rashīd; a story about some merchants; the tale of the Shaykh Shams al-Dīn and what befell him with the wisest man; the story of ʻAlī al-Jazzār; also two short paragraphs on magic with magic square diagrams.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; final folio replaced by a later hand written in naskhi ; watermarks (crescents?) ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Colophon: [حكايت الشيخ الحدبي] ... والفرق بين الجماعات وهو ملك الموت [منوعات 1] تمت بحمد الله وحسن عونه وتوفيقه على يد الفقير الى ربه عبد الله له والم...ين امين امين امين امين امين امين [منوعات 2] انتهى الكتاب المبارك سنة تم و صحح و كمل [قصة الفتى شمس الدين] لتمام والكمال والحمد لله على كل حال تمت صحح تمت [قصة علي الجزار] تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله على کل کل حال. امين امين ام م
Incipit: [حكايت الشيخ الحدبي] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد [منوعات 1] فبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد [منوعات 2] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد [قصة الفتى شمس الدين] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد [قصة علي الجزار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيد محمد
Binding note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in thick paper.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Maghribī.
Contents
1. 1a-12b: Hādhihi Ḥikāyat al-Shaykh al-Ḥadabī maʻa Hārūn al-Rashīd
2. fol. 12b-14b: [Miscellany including magic square]
3. fol. 15a-18a: [Miscellany including magic and a tale of some merchants]
4. fol. 18b-25b: Hādhihi qiṣṣat al-fatá Shams al-Dīn wa-mā jara la-hu maʻa aṣlaḥ al-nās
5. fol. 25b-34b: Qiṣṣat ʻAlī al-Jazzār wa-mā jarā la-hu maʻa Malik Buʻdād
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Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 739.
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Ḥikāyat al-Shaykh al-Ḥadabī maʻa Hārūn al-Rashīd.
حكايت الشيخ الحدبي مع هارون الرشيد.
Qiṣṣat al-fatá Shams al-Dīn wa-mā jara la-hu maʻa aṣlaḥ al-nās.
قصت الفتى شمس الدين وما جر له مع اصلح الناس.
Qiṣṣat ʻAlī al-Jazzār wa-mā jarā la-hu maʻa Malik Buʻdād.
قصت علي الجزار وما جرا له مع ملك بعداد.
OCLC
1290317517
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