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هذا كتاب جوامع الكلم في المواعظ والحكم / تأليف محمد علي بن حسام الدين المتقي الحنفي.
Hādhā Kitāb Jawāmiʻ al-kalim fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-ḥikam / taʼlīf Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Muttaqī al-Ḥanafī.
1593
A collection of about three thousand proverbs, wisdom sayings and traditions.
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- Publisher
- Dimashq, Ṣafar 1002 [1593]
- People
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- Related Name
- قادري، ابراهيم علي، active 16th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1082H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of about three thousand proverbs, wisdom sayings and traditions.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب جوامع الكلم في المواعظ والحكم / تأليف محمد علي بن حسام الدين المتقي الحنفي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Jawāmiʻ al-kalim fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-ḥikam / taʼlīf Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Muttaqī al-Ḥanafī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1082H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dct148fv84c
- Publisher
- Dimashq, Ṣafar 1002 [1593]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1593
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 212 leaves : paper ; 210 x 131 (160 x 74) mm bound to 210 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Aḥmadī al-Nūf..[?] known as Imām ʻUthmān Bāshā dated 1250 with his seal impression (fol. 1a); seal impression at the end of the colophon (fol. 212b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1925.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 348.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8703.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1353.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 212 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; opening spread frame-ruled in red (fol. 1b-2a).
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (unidentified circular mark) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed in Ṣafar 1002 Damascus by Ibrāhīm ʻAlī al-Qādirī (fol. 212b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي نور قلوب العارفين فاقتبسوا من لوامع كل.. وكلام ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله تعالى علي بن حسام الدين الشهير بالمتقى الحنفى ... جمعت فيه نحو ثلاثة ال[اف] حكمة ...
- Colophon: وحرره الفقير ابراهيم علي القادري في دمشق المحروسة من شهور سنة اثنين والف في نصف الليل م السبت
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with red leather spine and flap connector. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar edging design on flap with a variant gold-painted stamped design. Green leather doublures with gold-stamped designs. Binding appears to be patched together from different sources.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 439
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/963a45b1-a89e-4438-90d7-d26107e43ef3/manifest