Item Summary

Treatise on moral conduct, in 12 chapters (bāb). See description of contents in introduction, leaves 4a-7b.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مكارم الاخلاق.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Makārim al-akhlāq.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 496L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vq75q
Publisher
[1533]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1533
Format
Manuscript
Extent
289 leaves : paper ; 215 x 154 (138 x 86) mm.
Provenance
On leaf 1a: note and stamp of the scribe; three rectangular stamps (two also present on leaf 289b); note dated Rabīʻ I 1104 H [November 1692]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 405 (3/5)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1a.
A few marginal notes.
Layout: 12-18 lines per page.
Description: Written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. MS in good condition, leaves 1-3 detached. Occasional staining.
Origin: 16 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 939 [9 June 1533], by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Munshār (leaf 289b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الفرد الصمد الذى لم يلد ولم يولد ... وبعد فان الله سبحانه وتعالى لما جعل التاسى بنبيه مفتاحا لرضوانه
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stampedmandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Covers detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
589

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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