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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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- Publisher
- [1800-1899]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4335Y
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مفتاح الحكم ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Miftāḥ al-ḥikam ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4335Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczg64tx20j
- Publisher
- [1800-1899]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 81 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 196 x 135 (147-172 x 93-115) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 5111, 5119, 5122, 5123, 5124.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 3a-27a: Miftāḥ al-ḥikam. Perhaps the work of ʻAlī al-Iznīqī mentioned in Brockelmann, GAL, SII, 668 (2: no. 6). Divided into three maqālahs.
- 2. fol. 28b-38b: Lawḥ al-dhahab. Same as Leiden 1275, divided into three maqālahs: 1) Fī al-maʻdin, 2) fī al-ḥayawān, 3) fī al-nabāt. Followed by various excerpts on alchemy (fol. 39a-45a).
- 3. fol. 48b-74b: Kitāb fī al-ḥashāʼish wa-al-ashjār fī ʻilm al-ṣanʻah al-ilāhīyah. The preface tells about the discovery of the Syriac original of this book in the grave of a pharaoh.
- 4. fol. 75a-78a: Kitāb fīhi al-abwāb al-ʻasharah. According to marg. note on fol. 74a, this is a copy of ms. Nuru Osmaniye no. 3635.
- 5. fol. 81a-82a: Risālah fī al-tadbīr. Incomplete at the end.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- List of contents on folio 1a, inscriptions on folio 2a. Inscriptions and excerpts are included between the texts. Contains diagrams and tables.
- Layout: 28-33 lines per page.
- Origin: [Miftāḥ al-ḥikam] Copied 1293.
- Incipit: [مفتاح الحكم] الحمد لله الذى فضلنا على کثىر من عباده -- [لوح الذهب] Followed by various excerpts on alchemy (fol. 38a-44a). -- [كتاب في الحشائش] وبعد فهذا کتاب فى الحشائش ... قال من نقل هذا الکتاب انه نقله من رجل حکىم اسمه على ابن حسىن الرازى -- [كتاب فيه الابواب] ...هذا کتاب فىه الابواب العشرة لبعض الحکماء الواصلىن الباب الاول فى اىضاح ماهىة الحجر المشار الىه الباب الثانى فى استنباط عناصره -- [رسالة في التدبير] اعلم ان فى اصطلاح الحکماء الذهب الابىض هو الزىبق
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather and purple paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 180
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/710b4cea-5069-4048-be47-75253254232e/manifest