Item Summary

A treatise enumerating the actions of the wicked and warning against them.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الوصف الذميم في فعل اللئيم / جمعه محمد بن علي الانصاري الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Waṣf al-dhamīm fī fiʻl al-laʼīm / jamaʻahu Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1096H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5x21tt113
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
27 leaves : paper ; 202 x 151 (152 x 95) mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Abī al-Ṣalāḥ Muṣṭafá ibn Kamāl with his seal impression, Muḥammad al-Suyūtī? dated 1269 (fol. 1a); seal impression (fol. 27a-b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1934.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 445/6.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1849.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 27 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; on two kinds of paper ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر بالكريم الحمد لله وكفي وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فلما ان قل في هذا الزمان اخوان الصفا وكثر الجفا وعدم الوفا وتقدمت فيه العراة والحفا ...
Colophon: تم بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده امين. م
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2a9becd9-6557-4af4-b9c3-00665d94e3eb/manifest