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هذا كتاب حلية الكرما وبهجة الندما ... [الخ.]
Hādhā Kitāb Ḥilyat al-Kuramā wa-bahjat al-nudamā ... [etc.]
1700-1780
Collection of stories and sayings, poetry, and Qurʼanic commentary.
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- Publisher
- [between 1700 and 1780]
- People
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- Related Name
- نجاري، محمد بن محمد، active 18th century .
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 157H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Collection of stories and sayings, poetry, and Qurʼanic commentary.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب حلية الكرما وبهجة الندما ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Ḥilyat al-Kuramā wa-bahjat al-nudamā ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 157H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcww72bn18s
- Publisher
- [between 1700 and 1780]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1780
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 78 leaves : paper ; 197 x 145 (146-160 x 90-105) mm bound to 196 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Signatures: Aḥmad Rizq, Muḥammad ibn Ḥunayn, Ḥunayn? ibn [illegible] and a seal impression with the name Muḥammad (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 227, 1326, 241.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 112
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3476².
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-60b: Hādhā Kitāb Ḥilyat al-Kuramā wa-bahjat al-nudamā. A collection of stories and wise sayings on social themes divided into five sections: (1) on hospitality, (2) on doing good and helping the helpless, (3) on the life of the ancient kings and the best writers, (4) on men and women and their dealings, and (5) counsel for the benefit of the wise and the awakening of the slumbering.
- 2. fol. 61a-65a: Hādhihi al-Risālah Irshād al-barāya li-fayḍ al-ʻaṭāya / [Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī al-Miṣrī]. A commentary on a verse of the Koran, Sūrah II: 246.
- 3. fol. 65b-66a: [fawāʼid] Inscriptions and a table of the distances between places in Arabia dated 1193.
- 4. fol. 66b-72b: Kitāb al-Mawāʻiẓ wa-al-ḥikam. A collection of wise sayings, proverbs and traditions arranged in alphabetical order.
- 5. fol. 72b-76b: [poetry]
- 6. fol. 76b-78b: [fāʼidah consisting of two stories] One account about Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and the other about ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 78 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15-23 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (bird; anchor; other unidentified) ; MS in fair condition, some folios mended. MS is rare.
- Origin: [Ḥilyat al-kuramā] Copied Saturday 8 Ṣafar 1112 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-Najjārī (fol. 60b).
- Incipit: [حلية الکرما] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الرکيم الوهاب الرحيم التواب ... وبعد فهذا كتاب جمعته وسميته حلية لكرما وبهجة الندما يحتوى علي مقدمة وخمسة ابواب -- [رسالة ارشاد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى ارشد عباده للعطايا ووعدهم عليها مزيد المزايا ... اما بعد فهذا ما فاض به امداد مداد البنان لبيان معاني بعض اي القران -- [کتاب المواعظ] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على خير خلقه محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين هذاما حمعه الشيخ الريس العالم ... محمد بن ابراهيم الخازي رحمه الله تعالى من الاخبار والمواعظ والامثال والاحاديث النبوية
- Colophon: [حلية الکرما] تم بعون الله وحسن توفيقه يوم السبت المبارك ثامن شهرصفرمن شهورسنة الف وماية واثنى عشر من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام على يد افقر عباد ... الى رحمة مولاه محمد بن محمد الشهيربالبخاري بلدا غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاخوانه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات انك قريب مجيب الدعوات وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم وعلى اله وصحبه والحمد لله رب العالمين -- [رسالة ارشاد] وهذا بحسب ما فتحه الله على عبد من العباد والله اعلم واليه المرجع يوم المعاد وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه الايمة الامجاد -- [کتاب المواعظ] تم کتاب المواعظ والحکم المبوب على حرف المعجم بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثير[ا] وايما[نا] عميما الى يوم الدين والحمد لله امين
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with embossed floral design. Modern repair to flap.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 167
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/e485c437-44ea-420a-811d-a6748a98237c/manifest