Item Summary

A commentary on Naṣīḥat al-ikhwān wa-murshidat al-khullān, an ode of admonition in seventy-seven verses by Ibn al-Wardī to his son.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العرف الندي في شرح قصيدة ابن الوردي / للشيخ عبد الوهاب بن محمد الخطيب الغمري الشافعي الازهري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻArf al-nadī fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Ibn al-Wardī / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb al-Ghamrī al-Shāfiʻī al-Azʹharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 886H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731g177
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Extent
66 leaves : paper ; 209 x 156 (145 x 105) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1810.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, pp. 164/5, IV, p. 339.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4000/1.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1084.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3202-4¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Incomplete at the end, lacking commentary for the final 8 lines of verse. Folio 1a lists other other titles following this which are not present in the current manuscript.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 66 ; catchwords ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness.
Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
Ending: ورحل جابر بن عبد الله الانصاري رضي الله عنه
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال العبد الفقير عبد الوهاب محمد الخطيب الغمري ... الحمد لله الذي نسج في الازل شقة النصيحة ...
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
136

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ed680f96-815c-4896-86ff-0bf77f252c4e/manifest