A collection of about three thousand proverbs, wisdom sayings and traditions.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 212 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; opening spread frame-ruled in red (fol. 1b-2a).
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (unidentified circular mark) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed in Ṣafar 1002 Damascus by Ibrāhīm ʻAlī al-Qādirī (fol. 212b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي نور قلوب العارفين فاقتبسوا من لوامع كل.. وكلام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله تعالى علي بن حسام الدين الشهير بالمتقى الحنفى ... جمعت فيه نحو ثلاثة ال[اف] حكمة ...
Colophon: وحرره الفقير ابراهيم علي القادري في دمشق المحروسة من شهور سنة اثنين والف في نصف الليل م السبت
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with red leather spine and flap connector. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar edging design on flap with a variant gold-painted stamped design. Green leather doublures with gold-stamped designs. Binding appears to be patched together from different sources.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Aḥmadī al-Nūf..[?] known as Imām ʻUthmān Bāshā dated 1250 with his seal impression (fol. 1a); seal impression at the end of the colophon (fol. 212b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1925.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 348.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8703.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1353.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
جوامع الكلم
Title from lower edge of text block
Jawāmiʻ al-kalim
OCLC
1340422560
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