Descriptive Information

Title

كشف الاسرار عن حكم الطيور والازهار ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3370Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46rb84z

Publisher

[1700-1899]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1700-1899

Format

Manuscript

Extent

185 leaves : paper ; 204 x 162 (165-172 x 110-113) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2111, 2952, 4171.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 587 (no. 1); S I, 808; II, 205 (no. 2); SII, 199.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 3a-34b: Kashf al-asrār ʻan ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa-al-azʹhār.

2. fol. 35a-54a: Durar al-nuḥūr fī madāʼiḥ al-Malik al-Manṣūr.

3. fol. 55a-62a: Waṣīyat al-Ḥārith ibn al-Kaʻb li-awlādih.

4. fol. 62b-177b: [Miscellany] Consisting largely of waṣāyā in verse by ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Hāshim al-Khālidī, Ibn al-Farīd and others.

5. fol. 177b-182b: Kitāb Jawhar al-fann fī mufākharat al-narjis wa-al-ward.

6. fol. 182b-184b: Mufākharat al-layl wa-al-nahār.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Inscriptions and obscured text (fol. 1a-2a). Poem (fol. 185a). Obscured text (fol.185b).

Layout: 11-13 lines per page.

Origin: [Waṣīyat al-Ḥārith] Copied 1270 -- [Mufākharat al-layl wa-al-nahār] Copied 1270.

Incipit: [كشف الاسرار] قال ... الحمد لله البعىد فى قربه -- [در النحور] ابت الوصال مخافة الرقباء * وابتك تحت مدارع الظلماء -- [وصية الحارث ابن الكعب] هذه وصىة الحرث ... أحضر اولاده وقال ىا اولادى اذا رأىتمونى

Discovery Information

Subject

Sufism—Early works to 1800

Wills, Ethical—Early works to 1800

Necmeddin Gazi II el-Mansûr, Amir of Mardin -1312—Poetry—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count

387

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b5795313-ad28-4ea8-85ca-04d117e4e918/manifest

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