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Short collection of sayings and proverbs. Incomplete at beginning. The text is followed on fol. 8a-b by five riddles and their answer by Suyūṭī (incomplete at end).
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Short collection of sayings and proverbs. Incomplete at beginning. The text is followed on fol. 8a-b by five riddles and their answer by Suyūṭī (incomplete at end).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- درر الكلم وغرر الحكم.
- Transliterated Title
- Durar al-kalim wa-ghurar al-ḥikam.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 147H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcq811kv280
- Publisher
- [1711]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1711
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 8, i leaves : paper ; 213 x 158 (148 x 94) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 215
- Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 295
- Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 475
- Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Bd. 17. Teil 1, no. 433
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a, l. 4).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 8 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Written in black ink with use of red and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents (Tre lune)).
- Origin: Copy completed on Saturday 8 Ṣafar 1123 [March 28, 1711] by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ʻArafāt, under the patronage ("bi-rasm") of Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh ibn ʻUmrān al-Dayrabī al-Shāfiʻī al-Rifāʻī (colophon, fol. 8a). Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on fol. (i)a: "675" (corresponding to Brill's catalog. See Houtsma, M. Catalogue, no. 147).
- Beginning of text 1 as extant (fol. 1a): \\ ومعاني وبديعاً وتا ... جزهر القلايد والكواكب الشواهد.
- Explicit text 1 (fol. 8a): ان غرب الكوكب الاصفر واقبل الشفق الاحمر فاخضرّ الاسودان وافترقنا واجتمع فرقدان اخرها والله الموفّق للصواب.
- Incipit text 2 (fol. 8a): يتلوه الغاز اخري اجاب عنها شيخنا الجلال رحمه الله تعالى وملخّصها ما اذكره هنا وهي ابيات واجوبتها نثراً قوله من باتفاق الخلق افضل من شيخ الصحاب ابي بكر ومن عمر ... الجواب ان كان عني بالفتي عيسي.
- End text 2 as extant (fol. 8b): عليها مكفىاً للصغيرة المرتكبة او بكسر الجيم فهو الميزاب الخارج عن\\
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 24
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/2607f528-3397-4185-973e-bff55d079f0c/manifest