Item Summary

Treatise in verse on dream interpretation, arranged alphabetically. Copy incomplete at the beginning. The treatise is followed on fol. 148b by a short text mentioning several sayings attributed to the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
الالفية الوردية في تعبير الرؤيا
Transliterated Title
[al-Alfīyah al-Wardīyah fī taʻbīr al-ruʼyā].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 167L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgt54m1091
Publisher
[1516]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1516
Extent
148 leaves: paper ; 253 x 175 (170 x 120) mm bound to 253 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 938
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title and author's name supplied by cataloger.
Patronage: Copied for (bi-rasm) Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn al-ʻAbbāsī (colophon, fol. 148a).
Layout: 7 lines per page.
Description: Written in very large script in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines and pulp visible. Vowel signs. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The first folios are mended, with the lost text copied on the repair.
Origin: Copied by ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad al-Muʼadhdhib, who completed his work on Nahār al-Sabt at the end (salkh) of Shaʻbān 922 [Sept. 1516] (colophon, fol. 148a-b).
Beginning as extant: والال والاصحاب و(الاتباع) فالكل ذخري يوم يدع الداع وبعد فالتعبير علم حسن وفضله في يوسف مبيّن قال به اعيان كل ملة ثم خصوصا نحن اهل القبلة
Explicit: واجعل محمد النبي ذخرى في هذه الدنيا ويوم حشري تنمت بحمد الله وعونه
Beginning of short text fol. 148b: قال التبي صلعم انّ موضع الصلوة فى الايمان كموضع الراس فى الجسد قال النبى صلعم صحبة العالم يزيد الايمان وصحبة الجاهل ينقص العقل
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper over paper pasteboards.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
308

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cb49b3de-d07b-47b8-aa7a-7595a7d7d468/manifest