Item Summary

A collection of discourses, wise sayings and poems on religious, moral, political and social topics in 25 chapters.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب هدية الفقير لحضرة الوزير / مرتضى بيك الكردي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Hadīyat al-faqīr li-Ḥaḍrat al-Wazīr / Murtaḍá Bīk al-Kurdī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 164H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvx021q797
Publisher
Burj, ʻAkkār [Lebanon], 24 Ṣafar 1229 [February 15, 1814]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1814
Format
Manuscript
Extent
203, (1) leaves : paper ; 214 x 150 (70 x 100-110) mm. bound to 210 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Obliterated autograph of an owner on title page. On folio 203b are two reading statements dated 1279 [1862/3]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 362.
Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 605.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 232.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 203 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b) consisting of two large roundels in orange and black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield, laurel leaves) ; MS in fair condition with some worm damage.
Layout: 22-24 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes. On the title page are two shahādahs. After the colophon and on the four following folios are several poems of poetry in praise of this book and the party for whom it was copied, evidently a vizir and a descendant of the prophet; following this are several verses of poetry by various authors and a medical prescription. On the three following folios is a brief medical treatise by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī, 892 [1486/7]. On the two following folios are a charm, a verse of the Burdah and other writing. On the inside of the front and back covers are the autograph of a reader, the shahādah and other writing.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 24 Ṣafar 1229 by Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī in Burj, ʻAkkār (fol.195b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وقد کان الفراغ من رقم هذه النسخة الشريفة نهار الاثنين لاربع وعشرين خلت من صفر سنة 1229 وذلك في بلدة البرج من بلد عکار وکان نقل هذه النسخة على نسخة بخط المؤلف وقد تمت هذه على يد محمد الحلبي منشا الازهري مجاورة الخلوتي طريقة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي زين قلوب اهل التوحيد بالعلم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and surrounding decorations on covers and flap. Blind-tooled corner decoration. Multi-colored endband.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
419

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/880dae5b-f0b1-4bdc-8f93-936fa74e1563/manifest