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Descriptive Information

Title
[Arabic and Turkish miscellany].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 670Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcwm118295q
Publisher
[between 17-- and 18--]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Extent
119 leaves : paper ; 208 x 148 (145-162 x 75-90) 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), 2211, 1050, 830, 36, 22, 3866, 3496.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 351 (commentary 1, gloss f); I, 475 (44); II, 123 (no.l); S I, 346 (no. 5); S I, 514; S I, 656; S II, 117
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. leaves 1b-10b: ʻAqīdah.
2. leaves 11a-32b: Qunyat al-munyah li-tatmīn al-Ghunyah. Incomplete.
3. leaves 33b-37b: Risālah fī bayān lafẓ "kitāb al-ṭahārah". Anonymous discussion of the terms kitāb, bāb, faṣl, the reason why fiqh books begin with ṭahārah, etc.; divided into 11 faṣl.
4. leaves 41b-45b: [Suret-i] Tarij-i kudum-i serife[-yi] Islâm.
5. leaves 47b-48b: Hikâyet-i merhüm ve magfur Sultan Selim Nurullah kubi.
6. leaf 48b: [On Köprülüzade Mustafa Paşa and 16th century events].
7. leaf 49a: [Hikâyet-i Iskender].
8. leaf 49b: [Hikâyet-i Hazret-i İbrahim].
9. leaves 50a-50b: [Kabza?] / Sinan Paşa.
10. leaf 51a: [Miscellaneous notes about the 16th-century rule of Sultan Süleyman I].
11. leaf 53a: [El-amr kema cehd fihi el-hakir el-abd Ahmet bin Mürat el-mevt bi-kaza-yi timişvar].
12. leaves 54a-58b: [Treatise on Muḥammad, Fāṭimah and ʻĀʼishah].
13. leaves 59b-64a: Ḥudūd al-uṣūl. Apparently a shorter version of his al-Layth al-ʻābis.
14. leaves 85b-86b: Risālah fī ādāb al-muṭālaʻah.
15. leaves 86b-89a: al-Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm. Acephalous treatise divided into unnumbered bābs and khātimah; last section (fol. 96b) has the heading faṣl al-khiṭāb.
16. leaves 90a-97a: [Kitāb fī al-ʻarūḍ].
17. leaves 99b-102b: [Treatise on the basmalah].
18. leaves 103b-112b: Sharḥ abyāt al-Ḍawʼ. Anonymous commentary on the shawāhid of Isfarāyīnī's Ḍawʼ.
19. leaves 113a-119a: [Poem].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Layout: 17-26 lines per page.
Origin: [al-Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm] Copied 1207 -- [Kitāb fī al-arūḍ] Copied 1175.
Incipit: [عقيدة] الاشياء التى يقع بها العلم ثلاثة الحواس السليمة العقول المستقيمة والاخبار -- [قنية المنية] الحمد لله الذى اوضح معالم العلوم -- [رسالة في بيان] نحمد الله الذى لا يرد قضاؤه ... وبعد لما طالعت فى کتاب الطهارة لاح بعقلى -- [حدود الاصول] يقول ... الحمد لله الذي هو اصل للعالم في الايجاد ... وبعد فهذه حدود وضوابط -- [رسالة في آداب] اما بعد حمد من استغرق في مطالعة جماله انظار -- [اللؤلؤ النظيم] الحمد لله الذي شرف من وفقه بالعلم -- [كتاب في العروض] وسمى کل واحد منهما اعناتا ولزوم ما لا يلزم والله تعالى [اعلم] بالصواب -- [شرح ابيات الضوء] الحمد لله الذى شرف نوع الانسان باللسان

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Lexicology
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Basmalah
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Terminology—Early works to 1800
Islamic learning and scholarship—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family
Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad -1285—Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa07e92a-64c6-41a5-b507-2003d81197d6/manifest