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كتاب شذور الذهب من حر الكلام المنتخب / تأليف ابو الحسن علي بن موسى الانصاري الاندلسي.
Kitāb Shudhūr al-dhahab min ḥurr al-kalām al-muntakhab / taʼlīf Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Mūsá al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī.
1536
A collection of original poems on alchemy arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes. The work is otherwise known as Shudhūr al-dhahab fī al-iksīr.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- Dhū al-Ḥijjah 942 [June 1536]
- People
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- Author
- Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn Mūsá, 1121 or 1122-1196 or 1197
- انصاري، علي بن موسى، 1121 or 1122-1196 or 1197
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 539H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of original poems on alchemy arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhymes. The work is otherwise known as Shudhūr al-dhahab fī al-iksīr.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب شذور الذهب من حر الكلام المنتخب / تأليف ابو الحسن علي بن موسى الانصاري الاندلسي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Shudhūr al-dhahab min ḥurr al-kalām al-muntakhab / taʼlīf Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Mūsá al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 539H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvm40z318x
- Publisher
- Dhū al-Ḥijjah 942 [June 1536]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1536
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (2), 69 leaves : paper ; 235 x 168 (163-170 x 107) mm. bound to 235 x 173 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 931.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 17.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 383.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 601¹.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4180.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On title page occurs a statement that this work contains 43 poems and 1487 verses and that it was copied 942 [1536]. Fol. (1)a has inscription from Leiden.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 69 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
- Origin: According to title page copied beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 942 (fol. 1a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه المستعان قال الشيخ الامام العالم .. ابو الحسن على بن موسى بن ابى القاسم بن على الانصارى الاندلسى الشهير بابن المغربى ...
- Colophon: رفع الله حجاب الغفلة عن قلوبنا وبلغنا بفضله ما فيه لنا الخير من مطلوبنا بمنه وکرمه امين رب العالمين
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and yellow spotted paper. Multi-colored endbands.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 157
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/20f5d010-5455-41a7-b57d-933b1fe005c2/manifest