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هذا كتاب بهجة المجالس وانيس المجالس / تأليف ابي عمر عبد الله بن عبد البر النمري.
Hādhā Kitāb Bahjat al-majālis wa-anīs al-mujālis / taʼlīf Abī ʻUmar ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Barr al-Namarī.
1601
A collection of proverbs, wise sayings, tales and poetry on moral and social matters.
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- Publisher
- 3 Shawwāl 1009 [April 7, 1601?]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 978 or 979-1071
- ابن عبد البر، يوسف بن عبد الله، 978 or 979-1071
- Related Name
- مجولي، محمد بن عبد الكريم ، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 129H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of proverbs, wise sayings, tales and poetry on moral and social matters.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب بهجة المجالس وانيس المجالس / تأليف ابي عمر عبد الله بن عبد البر النمري.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Bahjat al-majālis wa-anīs al-mujālis / taʼlīf Abī ʻUmar ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Barr al-Namarī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 129H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tb09jg31v
- Publisher
- 3 Shawwāl 1009 [April 7, 1601?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1601
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 125 leaves : paper ; 204 x 150 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 204 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 106.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 726.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 213.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 193.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 125 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
- Layout: 15 lines per page.
- Marginal notes. At top of several folios occurs the shahādah. On the page following the title page is a table of contents.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 3 Shawwāl 1009 by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Majūlī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 125a).
- Title from title page (fol.1a ).
- Colophon: کتبه الفقير الحقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير سعد الدين بن محمد بن عبدالکريم المجولي الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين وکان الفراغ منه في يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث شهر شوال من سنة تسع بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية والله اعلم تم
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. باب الشکر قال رسول الله
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 262
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/318ee78e-e554-4e34-8355-7fe1d5d6cd2d/manifest