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المحاسن المجتمعة في فضل فضايل الخلفاء الاربعة / للشيخ علي الصفوري.
al-Maḥāsin al-mujtamaʻah fī faḍl faḍāyil al-khulafāʼ al-arbaʻah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Ṣaffūrī.
1704
A brief but thorough treatment of the characteristics and virtues of the four Orthodox caliphs.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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Metadata
- Publisher
- 1 Muḥarram 1116 [May 6, 1704]
- People
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- Scribe
- ʻAlī Dhīb ibn Muḥammad
- Related Name
- علي ذيب بن محمد
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 250H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A brief but thorough treatment of the characteristics and virtues of the four Orthodox caliphs.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- المحاسن المجتمعة في فضل فضايل الخلفاء الاربعة / للشيخ علي الصفوري.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Maḥāsin al-mujtamaʻah fī faḍl faḍāyil al-khulafāʼ al-arbaʻah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Ṣaffūrī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 250H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwm1180178
- Publisher
- 1 Muḥarram 1116 [May 6, 1704]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1704
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 62 leaves : paper ; 206 x 147 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 206 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 230.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 696.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 62 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; occasional vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition but loose and several folios are worm-eaten or mended. Considerable staining.
- Layout: 27 lines per page ; ruled.
- Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Six lines of verse follow the colophon.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 1 Muḥarram 1116 by ʻAlī Dhīb ibn Muḥammad [name added in different ink] (fol. 62a).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وقد تم هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب علي يد افقر العباد ...علي ذيب ابن محمد غفر الله تعالى له ولوالديه ووالد والديه والمسلمين اجمعين يا رب العالمين في غرة شهر محرم وكان ذلك ليلة الثلاثا من شهور سنة ستة عشر وماية والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها ازكى الصلاة واتم السلام وان تجد عبيب فسد ... جل من لا فيه عبيب وعلا
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اتقن ما صنعه واحسن وجود ما اخترعه
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 135
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/27fd4d29-1170-47a5-891b-f2743873bcef/manifest