Item Summary

Abridgment of Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr's Jamīʻ bayān al-ʻilm wa-faḍlih, on the virtues of science. The ms. contains also selections from two other texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة ذوي الالباب في محاسن الادب ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat dhawī al-albāb fī maḥāsin al-adab ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1366Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sj1391991
Publisher
Cairo, 11 Muḥarram 890-11 Ramaḍān 892 [February 6, 1485-September 9, 1487]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1485-1487
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves (+ i) : paper ; 181 x 134 (119 x 80 and 168 x 128) mm
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 16, 4274, 4440
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 292 (XV, Ausz. 4)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-57a: Tuḥfat dhawī al-albāb fī maḥāsin al-adab / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAlāʼī.
2. fol. 58b-59a: Faṣl fī nahr al-Nīl wa-muntahāh [apparently an abstract from al-Qawl al-mufīd fī al-Nīl al-saʻīd by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥallī, d. 864/1459].
3. fol. 60b-69b: Intiqāʼ Zahr al-rabīʻ / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAlāʼī. Selections from Zahr al-Rabīʻ, an abridgment of Rabīʻ al-abrār by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī. The present ms., as well as Chester Beatty 3466, attribute Zahr al-Rabīʻ to Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī (GAL, I, 383/50?)
4. fol. 70a-72b: [Several short texts].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Fol. 1a-2a: inscriptions and ownership statements. Fol. 2a and 72b: seals. Fol. 2 is pasted on the next unnumbered fol. (inscriptions visible).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; collation statement at the end of each quire (see fol. 20b, 30b, 58a) ; quires are numbered in red ink, using Arabic numerals (see fol. 11a, 21a, 31a, 41a, 51a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Written in small naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; MS worm-eaten.
Origin: [Tuḥfat dhawī] Copied on 11 Muḥarram 890 in the Madrasah al-Daylamīyah in Cairo (fol. 58a) -- [Intiqāʼ Zahr al-rabīʻ ] Copied on 11 Ramaḍān 892 (fol. 69b).
Explicit: [تحفة ذوي] فقال عليك بالياس مما فى ايدك الناس واياك والطعم فانه فقر حاضر -- [انتقاء] قال رجل لرسول الله ... اوصنى فقال عليك بالياسمما فى ايدى الناس واياك والطعم فانه فقر حاضر هذا اخر ما يسر الله تعالى لكاتبه
Incipit: [تحفة ذوي] بسم ... الحمد لله الدى علم بالقلم علم الانسان ما لم يعلم ... وبعد فطال ما طلعت كتب الاداب وتصفحت تصانيف ذوى الالباب فلم ار مثل هذه الكتابة -- [انتقاء] لحمد لله فى زهر الربيع بفخر الدين محمد بن ابى بكر الرازى المنتخب من ربيع الابرار من العلامه محمود بن عمر الزمخشرى ... مكتوب فى حكمة آل داود حق على العاقل
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper over paper pasteboard. Marbled paper (almost completely faded) pasted on both covers and envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh 978 or 979-1071—Jāmiʻ bayān al-ʻilm wa-faḍlih
Islamic religious education—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar 1075-1144—Rabīʻ al-abrār
Quotations, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Arabic wit and humor—Early works to 1800
Nile River—Early works to 1800
Egypt—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
150

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/407cd239-8af0-4993-bbe9-f9d69735c24a/manifest