Item Summary

Biographical dictionary of the learned men of Damascus. The volume contains also a short treatise by the same author on sugar as it is described in the ḥadīths and other texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
عرف الزهرات في تفسير الكلمات الطيبات / تأليف الحافظ الحجة الثقة شمس الدين محمد بن طولون الصالحي الدمشقي الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
ʻArf al-zaharāt fī tafsīr al-kalimāt al-ṭayyibāt / taʼlīf al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḥujjah al-Thiqah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṭūlūn al-Ṣāliḥī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 196B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9c67wm88r
Publisher
[between 15--? and 16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1600
Format
Manuscript
Extent
105 leaves : paper ; 176 x 128 (133 x 100) mm. bound to 179 x 133 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 702
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-101a: ʻArf al-zaharāt fī tafsīr al-kalimāt al-ṭayyibāt / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn.
2. fol. 101b-103a: [Blank].
3. fol. 103b: Fāʼidah.
4. fol. 104a-105b: Taʻrīf al-munkar min ḥāl al-sukkar / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title from title page is written in a later hand. The same title appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b) with no mention of the author.
Physical description: 23 long lines per page; on some pages the text is written horizontally on a narrower portion of the page and continues vertically (see ff. 38b, 39a-b). Written in a small script in black ink with use of red ; ff. 100b and 101a are by a later hand. The names of the persons mentioned in the text are written in the margin by several hands in black, red and green ink; some of these names are also numbered in the margin using Arabic numerals. Paper with vertical laid lines visible; chain lines (apparently grouped by three) are visible on some leaves; frame-ruled (6 mm.). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Collation notes (collation statement fol. 105b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
At the end of the text another hand added a list of names and dates numbered in the margin and a portion of text (ff. 100b-101a). Ff. 101b-103a are blank, but on fol. 103b, there is a "Fāʻidah" written by the same hand as the main text.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي ميز هذه الامة ... الى يوم البحث والعشروبعد فهذا تعليق سميته عرف الزهرات في تفسير الكلمات الطيبات وهو ما اخرج النساي واللفظ له
Explicit: لايوافق الشرع الشريف وهو كثير الادب محب لذوي الكمال
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over pasteboards. The upper cover has a gold-tooled vertical central pattern enclosed in a frame formed of a single gold-tooled line, with a small gold-tooled motif in each of the inner corners. The outer frame is formed of blind-tooled lines and a running pattern. The lower cover has a blind-stamped central mandorla panel. The spine has been repaired. Modern pastedowns and endpapers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Syria—Damascus—Biography—Early works to 1800
Damascus (Syria)—Biography—Early works to 1800
Damascus (Syria)—History—Early works to 1800
Sugar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
222

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7b4944e3-d6a3-4fd7-86bc-a1945abb680d/manifest