Item Summary

A compilation of instances in the Koran and tradition, and of anecdotes, relating to the speech, articulate or mute, of animals, plants and inanimate objects. The work is divided into six parts: (1) speech of animals; (2) speech of rational beings after death; (3) speech of inanimate objects; (4) speech of groups; (5) the moanings of various objects; (6) hints and signs which take the place of speech.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نطق المفهوم من اهل الصمت المعلوم / تأليف ابي الفرج عبد الرحمن بن الجوزي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nuṭq al-mafhūm min ahl al-ṣamt al-maʻlūm / taʼlīf Abī al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Jawzī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 192Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjh3445209
Publisher
28 Rajab 1029 [June 29, 1620?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1620
Format
Manuscript
Extent
169 leaves : paper ; 287 x 200 (235 x 140) mm bound to 287 x 204 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ..., Ghāzī Bilāl dated 1280, Muḥammad ibn ... (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2192.
Ḥājjī Khālīfah, VI, p. 354.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8761.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 624/5.
Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1189.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Inscriptions, ownership signatures and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Inscriptions (fol. 169b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 169 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor; hand topped by a star) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 28 Rajab 1029 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥimṣī (fol. 169a).
Colophon: و کان انتهاء نسخه منه في وقت صلاة العصر في نهار السبت من شهر رجب في ثمانية و عشر ين منه من شهور السنة تسعة و عشرين بعد الف من الهجرة النبوية ... و حسبنا الله و نعم الوکيل
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله مستحق الحمد على جميع الحالات بلا ارتياب ... اما بعد فاني تذاكرت مع بعض الاخوان ما ورد في العلم من كلام الحجز لموسي ابن عمران ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and light brown marbled paper. Dark brown spotted paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Anecdotes—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
350

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa64a5c4-b3ce-44d5-b1e9-cb8729058930/manifest