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فقر الحکماء ونوادر القدماء والعلماء.
Faqr al-ḥukamāʼ wa-nawādir al-qudamāʼ wa-al-ʻulamā.
1600-1699
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- Arabic
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- Title
- فقر الحکماء ونوادر القدماء والعلماء.
- Transliterated Title
- Faqr al-ḥukamāʼ wa-nawādir al-qudamāʼ wa-al-ʻulamā.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 110B
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/w0892m38s
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1699
- Format
- Manuscript
- References
- Marzolph, Ulrich. "New data concerning the historical development of the frame tale of the Nights," Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. 54 (2023), p. 281-296.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Anonymous.
- Copied A.H. 1076 [A.D. 1666] by ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd Allāh.
- Fols. 30; 20.5 x 14.2 cm.; written surface 16 x 9 cm.; 29 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.
- A compendium containing brief accounts of the lives of twenty ancient philosophers.
- Beg.: بسم الله ... وبعد ... فاحببت ان اخدم حضرته الشرىفة بتالىف کتاب ... ىشتمل على بعض ما قالته جماعة من الحکماء
- Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على ىد اضعف العباد واحوجهم ىوم التناد عمر بن عبد الله وذلك نهار الثلاثاء السابع عشر من ذي القعدة سنة ست وسبعىن والف من هجرة من له العز ونهاىة الشرف. صلى الله علىه وعلى آله کلما ذکره الذاکرون وکلما غفل عن ذکر[ه] الغافلون وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکىل. ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظىم. م
- A few marginal notes. The author, we learn from the introduction, composed his work and then dedicated it to al-Nāṣir Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghāzī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, who ruled in Aleppo A.D. 1236-60 and in Damascus A.D. 1250-60, and who died A.H. 659 [A.D. 1261]. On the title page, however, the work is ascribed to ʻUmar ibn Ẓafar, the author of Sulwān al-muṭāʻ. This evidently is a mistake because the author of Sulwān al-muṭāʻ was Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn Ẓafar and not ʻUmar, and because Muḥammad ibn Ẓafar died A.H. 565 [A.D. 1174], ninety-one years before the Ayyūbid Sultan to whom the work was dedicated. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding; blind stamped.
- Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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- 68
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- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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