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ميزان الافکار نصايح الابرار والاخيار.
Mīzān al-afkār naṣāyiḥ al-abrār wa-al-akhyār.
1789
A short treatise about securing the counsel of the godly people. The work is dedicated to Sultan Salīm III [1789-1807].
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- Publisher
- Rajab 1203 [1789]
- People
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- Author
- Iskilibī, Aḥmad ibn Ṣafī al-Dīn, active 18th century
- اسكلبي، احمد بن صفي الدين، active 18th century
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1086H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A short treatise about securing the counsel of the godly people. The work is dedicated to Sultan Salīm III [1789-1807].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- ميزان الافکار نصايح الابرار والاخيار.
- Transliterated Title
- Mīzān al-afkār naṣāyiḥ al-abrār wa-al-akhyār.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1086H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjh344499c
- Publisher
- Rajab 1203 [1789]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1789
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 11 leaves : paper ; 194 x 129 (120 x 70) mm bound to 194 x 132 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1929.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (fol. 3a).
- A few marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
- Description: Rubricated ; occasional vowel signs ; watermarks (grapes) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, pink, orange, white and black (fol. [i]b). Gold dots used as separators throughout text.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1203 by the author (fol. 10b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الخالق الذي رفع السماء بغير عمد ... اما بعد فان افضل سلطان السلاطين لا زال مؤيدا بتأييد الملك المتعالى عن جناب قطب السلاطين الكرام
- Colophon: الحمد لله اولا وآخرا والصلاة والسلام على سيد الانبيآء والمرسلين وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا. سنة ثلث ومائتين والف في رجب المرجب من عشر الاول بدء بيوم پنجشنبه وختم بالاوسط منه حرر بيد المؤلف المحلص [؟] احمد صفي الدين المأذون من کليسى تلميذ قاز آبادى عليهما رحمة الباري تم
- Binding Note
- Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 32
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/87f5023a-3b66-4af3-a078-1a64add74c76/manifest