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كتاب الجليس الصالح الكافي والانيس الناصح الشافي / تأليف ابي الفرج المعافا بن زكريا بن يحيى النهرواني.
Kitāb al-Jalīs al-ṣāliḥ al-kāfī wa-al-anīs al-nāṣiḥ al-shāfī / taʼlīf Abī al-Faraj al-Muʻāfā ibn Zakarīyā ibn Yaḥyá al-Nahrawānī.
1300-1399
A collection of historical instructions divided into majālis (sessions). The present copy contains sessions 64 (in part) - 77 (in part).
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- Publisher
- [14th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Jarīrī, Muʻāfá ibn Zakarīyā, approximately 917-1000
- جريري، معافى بن زكريا، approximately 917-1000
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 705H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of historical instructions divided into majālis (sessions). The present copy contains sessions 64 (in part) - 77 (in part).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الجليس الصالح الكافي والانيس الناصح الشافي / تأليف ابي الفرج المعافا بن زكريا بن يحيى النهرواني.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Jalīs al-ṣāliḥ al-kāfī wa-al-anīs al-nāṣiḥ al-shāfī / taʼlīf Abī al-Faraj al-Muʻāfā ibn Zakarīyā ibn Yaḥyá al-Nahrawānī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 705H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8910k556w
- Publisher
- [14th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1300-1399
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 190 leaves : paper ; 202 x 143 (166 x 103) mm bound to 200 x 141 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature of Muḥammad al-Amīn al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Kharrāṭ al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī dated 1129 (fol. (i)a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1369.
- Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist (1872), p. 236.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 546.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 606/7.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8325.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from later title page (fol. (i)a).
- A few marginal notes and glosses. French inscription on fol. (i)a.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 190 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; several folios are defective.
- Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
- Incipit: اللهم اعن ... احمد بن ... يجود بالنفس اذ من الجواد بها
- Ending: على وجه يرجع الى تصديق
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Upper cover has leather doublure with floral design.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 392
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/4972884b-2bb6-4625-9abd-b60de60ca7bd/manifest