Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic etiquette—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 705H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of historical instructions divided into majālis (sessions). The present copy contains sessions 64 (in part) - 77 (in part).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from later title page (fol. (i)a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. French inscription on fol. (i)a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 190 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; several folios are defective.
• Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
• Incipit: اللهم اعن ... احمد بن ... يجود بالنفس اذ من الجواد بها
• Ending: على وجه يرجع الى تصديق

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Upper cover has leather doublure with floral design.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Muḥammad al-Amīn al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Kharrāṭ al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī dated 1129 (fol. (i)a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1369.
• Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist (1872), p. 236.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 546.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 606/7.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8325.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Jalīs al-ṣāliḥ al-kāfī wa-al-anīs al-nāṣiḥ al-shāfī
• جليس الصالح الکافي والانيس الناصح الشافي

OCLC

1340424366

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