[مختارات من مجمع بحار الانوار في غرائب التنزيل ولطائف الاخبار] ... [الخ].

[Selections from Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār] ... [etc.]

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
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[18th century]
Description
200 leaves : paper ; 220 x 163 (175 x 120) mm bound to 220 x 168 mm.

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    A collection containing selections from Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār, Mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar lil-Maqāṣid, and Kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār ʻalá ṣaḥīḥ al-āthār.
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    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 + i ; catchwords ; collation notes (see fol. 110b) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 27 lines per page ; ruled.
    • Description: Rubricated ; entries in red ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet initials with trefoil, cross on hills, crescent on top of roman-alphabet letters, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
    • Origin: [Selections from Majmaʻ biḥār] Copied Friday 12 Jumadá al-Ūlá 1148 by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Fatḥ Allāh al-Ḥamawī al-Makkī (fol. 110b). Folios 3-165 appear to be in the same hand.
    • Incipit: [Selections from Mukhtaṣar ] حديث اختلاف امتي رحمة قال في المقاصد انه لم يرد بهذا اللفظ الا في غريب الخظابي -- [Selections from Kitāb Mashāriq] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على جاتم النبيين ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الي الله تعالى القوي محمد بن مصطفى بن فتح الله الحموي بلدا ... جمعه من كتاب مشارق الانوار علي صحيح الاثار
    • Colophon: [Selections from Majmaʻ ] تم ما اراد الله جمع وانتخابه وكان فراغ من رقمه وتسطيره وكتبه وتحبير قبل الصلاة في نوم الجمعة ثانى عشر جمادى الاولى من شهور سنة 1148 ثمان واربعين وماية والف من الهجرة النبوية على صانحبها افضل الصلاة ... علي يد افقر الوري ... محمد بن مصطفى بن فتح الله الحموي بلد المكى مولدا ... وصلي الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد و علي اله وصحبه اجمعين -- [Selections from Mukhtaṣar ] انتهى ما نقلته من مختصر المختصر للمقاصده للعلامة الولي سيدي الشيخ محمد بن عبد الباقى الزرقاني رحمه الله تعلى و.. في الدارين
    Binding note
    Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-2b: [Inscriptions]
    • 2. fol. 3a-110b: [Selections from Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār] A large dictionary of the Qurʼan and the traditions by Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Fattanī al-Hindī al-Kujarātī. Incomplete at the beginning.
    • 3. fol. 110b-114b: [Selections from Mukhtaṣar al-Mukhtaṣar lil-Maqāṣid] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Zurqānī. Selections from his own abridgment, al-Maqāṣid al-ḥasanah fī kathīr min al-aḥādīth al-mashhūrah ʻalá al-alsinah, on a work on traditions by al-Sakhāwī.
    • 4. fol. 116a-160b?: [Selections from Kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār ʻalá ṣaḥīḥ al-āthār]. Autograph copy of a redaction by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Fatḥ Allāh al-Ḥamawī of a work on the genuine traditions by Abū al-Faḍl Mūsá ibn ʻIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī.
    • 5. fol. 161a?-199b: [Historical extracts, stories, verses of poetry, anecdotes and traditions].
    Provenance
    Signature of Muṣṭafá al-Mudarris dated 1186 (fol. 200a); signature on folio 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2071.
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    Also available in an electronic version.
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    مجموعة لطيفة
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    • Majmūʻah laṭīfah
    OCLC
    1340423813
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