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هذا كتاب انيس الجليس / تصنيف الامام ابن الجوزي.
Hādhā Kitāb Anīs al-Jalīs / taṣnīf al-Imām Ibn al-Jawzī.
1717
A collection of anecdotes about prophets, saints and pious men designed for entertainment and imitation.
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- Author
- Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201
- ابن الجوزي، ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، approximately 1116-1201
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1058H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of anecdotes about prophets, saints and pious men designed for entertainment and imitation.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب انيس الجليس / تصنيف الامام ابن الجوزي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Anīs al-Jalīs / taṣnīf al-Imām Ibn al-Jawzī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1058H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcft8493291
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1717
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 234 leaves : paper ; 203 x 150 (150 x 95) mm bound to 204 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān al-Khawwām, ʻAbd Allāh al-Bā[bā] dated 1275 (fol. 1a); Muḥammad al-Khawwām, ʻAbd Allāh al-Bābā dated 1261 (fol. 230b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1895.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Following the colophon are several folios of fawāʼid which consists of poetry by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zuhayr, Ibn Nabīh and al-Ḥājirī (fol. 232a-b), miscellaneous prayers and other inscriptions (fol. 233a-234a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 234 ; catchwords ; foliation in pencil using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 11 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed by Tuesday 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1129 Aḥmad ibn Ramaḍān (fol. 230b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد فقد التمس مني الاصحاب والاخوان ان رتب لنا كتابا علي سبيل التبرك من بعض انواع الجواهر علومك ...
- Colophon: تم وکمل. علقه بيده الفانية الحقير احمد بن الشيخ رمضان اللهم اغفر له ولوالديه ولا ستاذيه ولجميع المسلمين آمين. وذلك يوم الثلاثاء سبعة عشر يوما خلا من شهر ربيع الثاني من سنة الف ومائة وتسعة وعشرين بعد الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها الف الف صلاة والف الف سلام
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped medallion and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Flap connector lined with brown leather.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 479
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4929c93b-35e8-41da-b988-c0d4cecdf7fb/manifest