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كتاب الشفائي ببديع الاكتفا / للشيخ شمس الدين محمد النواجي.
Kitāb al-Shifāʼī bi-badīʻ al-iktifā / lil-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Nawājī.
1757
A short treatise on rhetoric.
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- Publisher
- 15 Muḥarram 1171 [September 29, 1757]
- People
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- Related Name
- كستموني، عبد الرحمن
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 434H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A short treatise on rhetoric.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الشفائي ببديع الاكتفا / للشيخ شمس الدين محمد النواجي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Shifāʼī bi-badīʻ al-iktifā / lil-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Nawājī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 434H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc44558q76m
- Publisher
- 15 Muḥarram 1171 [September 29, 1757]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1757
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 27, (2) leaves : paper ; 205 x 152 (165 x 95) mm. bound to 204 x 155 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad Jāwīsh al-ʻAlāyilī dated Muḥarram 1195, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Ar[?] dated 1241, Yaḥyá Bīk Fuʼād ibn ʻAlī Bīk al-Raḍī dated 1288 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 554.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 277/8.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3401³.
- Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 340³, 428³, 433.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2823.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol.1a).
- A few marginal notes. Title page bears four lines of poetry. A few lines of poetry on folio (2)b at the end of the volume.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 27 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; verse separators and other use of red ; watermarks (grapes, roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 15 Muḥarram 1171 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kastamūnī (fol. 27b).
- Incipit: بسم الله ... اما بعد حمد الله الذي ما خاب من اکتفى به
- Colophon: تم کتاب الشفاء في بديع الاکتفاء في يوم الخميس المبارك خامس عشر شهر محرم الحرام من شهور سنة 1171 من الهجره النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام على يد افقر العباد الى ربه المغني المذنب عبد الرحمن الکستموني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن قرأ فيه ولمن دعا له بخير ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين امين
- Binding Note
- Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 66
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- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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