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اختصار درة الغواص فيما وهم على الخواص / عثمان النجدي الحنبلي.
Ikhtiṣār Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fīmā wahima ʻalá al-khawāṣṣ / ʻUthmān al-Najdī al-Ḥanbalī.
1719
An abridgment of the work of al-Ḥarīrī 446-516 [1054/5-1122] entitled Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fīmā wahama ʻalá al-khawāṣṣ, which is a collection of strictures on the erroneous use of various expressions.
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- Publisher
- Rabīʻ II 1131 [February/March 1719]
- People
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- Related Name
- فوزي، علي بن ابراهيم active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 294H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An abridgment of the work of al-Ḥarīrī 446-516 [1054/5-1122] entitled Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fīmā wahama ʻalá al-khawāṣṣ, which is a collection of strictures on the erroneous use of various expressions.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- اختصار درة الغواص فيما وهم على الخواص / عثمان النجدي الحنبلي.
- Transliterated Title
- Ikhtiṣār Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fīmā wahima ʻalá al-khawāṣṣ / ʻUthmān al-Najdī al-Ḥanbalī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 294H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbn999j003
- Publisher
- Rabīʻ II 1131 [February/March 1719]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1719
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (2), 51, (1) leaves : paper ; 206 x 155 (150 x 100) mm. bound to 207 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 268.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 51 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; MS in good condition but several folios are stained with dampness and fol. 50 is defective.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
- Marginal notes and glosses. A slip of paper bearing the title is pasted on the outside of the front cover. Title page has a list of other works by the author, and an account about al-Ḥarīrī.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon writing completed Friday 14 Rabīʻ I 1097, text copied Thursday [?] Rabīʻ II 1131 by ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fawzī al-Ḥasanī. (fol. 51a).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الخميس المبارك ختام شهر ربيعى [ربيع] الثاني من شهور سنة 1131 على يد احقر وافقر واحوج الورى الى مغفرة ربه علي بن السيد ابراهيم الفوزي الحسني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين ولکل من کتب منه او طالع فيه ودعا له بالعفو والمغفرة والمسامحة امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي حمدا سهل سبل القرب منه لقاصده
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 119
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1697a36e-c20c-4708-976e-143f85b4bdec/manifest