Item Summary

A collection of spurious sayings of the Caliph ʻAlī with Persian translation in the margins.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نثر اللآلي لامير المؤمنين ع[لي] بن ابي طالب.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nathr al-laʼālī li-Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻA[lī] ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 16L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdj52wh59
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
18 leaves : paper ; 179 x 127 (100 x 65) mm bound to 177 x 132 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Ṣafwat ibn Ḥājj Muḥammad (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 237.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 301.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8695/60.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 18 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 7 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; title written in gold ink ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الالف. إِيمان المرء يعرف بأيمانه
Colophon: تم کتاب نثر اللآلي من کلام امير المومنين علي ابن ابى طالب عليه الکرامة والرضوان .مترجمة بالفارسي.هو المعين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and blue marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Hadith
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

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/606a5802-9f73-4815-8481-846b5a274d3e/manifest