Item Summary

A collection of original discourses on God, prayer, prophets, justice, friendship and many similar subjects. Followed by a collection of sayings and short discourses divided into seven sections: (1) On writing and eloquence, (2) on spring and other seasons, (3) description of nights and days, (4) on love, (5) on wine, (6) on brotherhood and friendship, and (7) on various arts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المبهج ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mubhij ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 127H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z316qb24d
Publisher
17 Muḥarram 1274 [September 7, 1857]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1857
Format
Manuscript
Extent
70 leaves : paper ; 182 x 138 (150 x 120) mm. bound to 182 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8332, 8333.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, p. 286.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1176³⁵, 3305¹, 3401⁴.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 340⁴.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 187, 188.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-11b: Kitāb al-Mubhij / taʼlīf Abī Manṣūr ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Ismāʻīl al-Thaʻālibī.
2. fol. 12a-64b: Kitāb Man ghāba ʻanhu al-muṭrib / taʼlīf Abī Manṣūr ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Ismāʻīl al-Thaʻālibī.
3. fol. 65a-70a: [Miscellany]
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 70 + xxiv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 16-18 lines per page.
Marginal notes. On the title page (fol. 1a) occur several verses of poetry and a statement about the works in the volume. On the title page of the 2nd work (fol. 12a) is a statement in Latin copied from Casiri (Casiri 338) about four books of which ours is the last. Fol. 65a-70a the copyist wrote several verses of poetry, some wise sayings and several proverbs. Following this are 23 blank folios; on the folio following are a statement about the kinds of writing and two proverbs.
Ms. codex.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Mubhij] According to colophon copied 17 Muḥarram 1274 by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Asīr (fol. 11b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: [كتاب المبهج] وکان نسخها في سبع عشرة خلون من شهر محرم الحرام من شهور سنة اربع وسبعين وماتين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوات والتسليم وعلى آله وصحبه ذوي التکريم وعفا الله تعالى عنا وعن المسلمين [كتاب من غاب عنه المطرب] وانا اسأل الله التوفيق لغرض خدمته وشکر نعمته بمنه وسعة رحمته والله الموفق سبحانه وتعالى
Incipit: [كتاب المبهج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم استفتاحا به واستنجاحا [كتاب من غاب عنه المطرب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر واعن يا کريم. الشيخ العميد السيد اطال الله بقاه
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in blue patterned fabric and paper with block-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Proverbs, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Quotations, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Cloth bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
158

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2576d0cd-8e28-4d7e-9675-550048a7d0bd/manifest