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Treatise on the properties of precious stones in 25 chapters (bāb), followed by a short anecdote, excerpts from a treatise on precious stones attributed to Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī and a note about the characteristics and skills accorded during creation to various nations attributed to Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.
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- Publisher
- [before 1870]
- People
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- Related Name
- Kaʻb al-Aḥbār, -655 or 656
- كعب الاحبار، -655 or 656
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 584H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Treatise on the properties of precious stones in 25 chapters (bāb), followed by a short anecdote, excerpts from a treatise on precious stones attributed to Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī and a note about the characteristics and skills accorded during creation to various nations attributed to Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الاحجار الملوكية ... [الخ]
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Aḥjār al-mulūkīyah ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 584H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6m312093f
- Publisher
- [before 1870]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1000-1870
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 73 leaves: paper, illustrations ; 167 x 123 (112 x 82) mm bound to 168 x 132 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Murād, dated 5 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1287 [1870] on the first fly-leaf (fol. (i), with a poem) and on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1073
- Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften, p. 114, 125-127
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 495 (4/1); SI, 904 (5/1)
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-75a: Kitāb al-Aḥjār al-mulūkīyah / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-muḥaqqiq Shihāb al-Dīn Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī.
- 2. fol. 76b-77a: [Anecdote].
- 3. fol. 77a-81b: [Text on precious stones] / Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī.
- 4. fol. 82a: [Short text on the characteristics and skills accorded during creation to various nations] / Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.
- 5. fol. 83: [Blank].
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few notes on the margin quoting other sources (see fol. 6a, 9a). Inscription on the fly-leaf of the upper cover.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 82 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 11 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; light cream glazed paper with laid lines visible ; fol. 7 and 38 are later replacements.
- Decoration: Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in blue, red and gold (fol. 1a).
- Explicit text 1 (fol. 75b): [خواص الاحجار] فانّه يصير كانّه لون الدرّ قيمته الاوقية من جيّده بدهرم نقره و هذا آخر الكتاب والحمد لله وجده وضُلوتُه وسلامُه على سيّدنا مجمد وآله وصحبه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل -- [Anecdote] وايارج التملق وجنضل التوكل وشبرم الاعتراف وبنادق التسليم وحسنا الله ونعم الوكيل قال العابد نعم ما وصفتَ -- [Text on precious stones] جعل مع الفضّة والذهب عند سبكه شعب ذلك السبكه لما فيه من الرصاص والله اعلم بذلك تم ذلك بعون الله تعالى -- [Short text] وقال الهندسة اين تختارى فقالت الهند قالت الحكمةُ وأنا مَعك -- [fol. 82b] وهذه احسن ما خُتم به هذا الكتاب فسبحان مدبّر الامور على ممرّ الاوقات وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمّد وآله وصحبه اجمعين حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
- Incipit text 1 (fol. 1b): [خواص الاحجار] قال العبد الفقير الى الله عز وجل احمد بن يوسف التيفاشى هذا كتاب غريب الوضع عجيب الجمع عظيم النفع ضمنته ذكر الاحجار الملوكية -- [Anecdote] قال بعض العلمآ انى اخترت الزيارة بالبيت المقدس فسلكت بعض شوارعه فوجدت بعض الاطبا جالسا على بعض الدكاكين -- [Text on precious stones] ومما وُجد مناسق لمعنى الكتاب من تصنيف الشيخ ... يعقوب بن اسحق المعروف بالكندى ... قال الجوهر ينقسم الى قسمين احدهما من الحيوان والآخر ارضى -- [Short text] قال كعب الاحبار ... وجدتُ فى بعض الكتب المنزّلة عن الله ... انّه لما قسم الله ... الاخلاق وفرّقها فى الآفاق قال للعقل اين تختارُ قال العراق قال العلم وانا معك
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in tan leather and blue paper with block-pressed design. Re-used paper pasted on the inner covers. Disbound.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 182
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/ec789617-c5ba-48e1-99c4-75e18eb2bf61/manifest