Item Summary

A collection of poems, proverbs, wise sayings and stories by various authors.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموعة لطيفة تشتمل على سجع فايق ونظم رايق واخبار وغرر اسمار.
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻah laṭīfah tashtamilu ʻalá sajʻ fāyiq wa-naẓm rāyiq wa-akhbār wa-ghurar asmār / jamaʻahā Muḥammad al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣāliḥī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 162H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4f16cc499
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1867
Extent
(1), 210, (1) leaves : paper ; 228 x 157 (150 x 85) mm. bound to 228 x 164 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 230.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 210 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-21 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (moon inside a shield, roman-alphabet letters "A G" ) ; MS in excellent condition, spine partially detached.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses in red and black. On the folio before the title page are four verses of poetry, two by Ḥusayn al-Marṣafī, 1308 [1890/1] and the other two by another.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 5 Jumādá I 1284 by Ḥasanayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Miṣrī (fol. 210b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: انتهى. کتبه لنفسه الفقير لمولاه الکريم حسنين بن محمد بن مصطفى المصري وکان نجاز کتابته صبيحة يوم الاربعاء خامس ايام خلت من جمادى الاولى سنه 1284 هجرية وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا کثيرا. ان تجد عيبا فسد الخللا * جلّ من لافيه عيب وعلا
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اجرى في بحار الافکار سفينة الفصاحة
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Blind-tooled frame and edging. Blind-stamped motif and blind-tooled edging on flap. Endbands. Pastedowns and flyleaf are blue paper with block-stamped design in black and white.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
438

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/79fa581e-13d5-493f-8a2e-962377f46f91/manifest