Item Summary

A collection of wise sayings, proverbs, anecdotes and poems on religious, moral and social topics. Fol. 38b has a chart of Ottoman rulers.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب الرياض الانيقة في النکات والاشعار الرقيقة.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Riyāḍ al-anīqah fī al-nikāt wa-al-ashʻār al-raqīqah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 156H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmg74qw761
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
170 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (165 x 105) mm. bound to 204 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ḥ̣ājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 516/7.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 226.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 179 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated gilt headpiece. Fol. 1b and 2a are frame-ruled in double gold lines.
Description: Rubricated ; MS contains some red, green and yellow paper ; watermarks (grapes, design incorporating a heart) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 13-32 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page occur a statement about the Caliph ʻUmar, a statement about telling the truth and another that the owner of the collection and its copyist is Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻAṭṭār al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1140 [1727/8]. After the colophon are six verses of poetry, and an amplification (takhmīs) by the shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī. On the inside of the front cover occur a statement by someone about his futile career in alchemy and several autographs of owners; and on the inside of the back cover, a statement about someoneʼs attempted trip from Damascus to Izmīr.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ending: ومن لا اصل له لا يقدران يستر مکره
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. حمدًا لك يا من ابرزمن رياض قرايح الفصحاء
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Autographs
Headbands
Colored papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
369

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/92afe3a4-c208-4759-bfb6-494b26e3e25a/manifest