• درر الكلم وغرر الحكم.
  • Durar al-kalim wa-ghurar al-ḥikam.

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
  • سيوطي 1445-1505
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 147H
Extent:
  • i, 8, i leaves : paper ; 213 x 158 (148 x 94) mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a, l. 4).
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 8 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 19 lines per page.
  • Description: Written in black ink with use of red and yellow ; watermarks (three crescents (Tre lune)).
  • Origin: Copy completed on Saturday 8 Ṣafar 1123 [March 28, 1711] by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ʻArafāt, under the patronage ("bi-rasm") of Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh ibn ʻUmrān al-Dayrabī al-Shāfiʻī al-Rifāʻī (colophon, fol. 8a). Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on fol. (i)a: "675" (corresponding to Brill's catalog. See Houtsma, M. Catalogue, no. 147).
  • Beginning of text 1 as extant (fol. 1a): \\ ومعاني وبديعاً وتا ... جزهر القلايد والكواكب الشواهد.
  • Explicit text 1 (fol. 8a): ان غرب الكوكب الاصفر واقبل الشفق الاحمر فاخضرّ الاسودان وافترقنا واجتمع فرقدان اخرها والله الموفّق للصواب.
  • Incipit text 2 (fol. 8a): يتلوه الغاز اخري اجاب عنها شيخنا الجلال رحمه الله تعالى وملخّصها ما اذكره هنا وهي ابيات واجوبتها نثراً قوله من باتفاق الخلق افضل من شيخ الصحاب ابي بكر ومن عمر ... الجواب ان كان عني بالفتي عيسي.
  • End text 2 as extant (fol. 8b): عليها مكفىاً للصغيرة المرتكبة او بكسر الجيم فهو الميزاب الخارج عن\\
Publisher:
  • [1711]
Subject:
  • Proverbs, Arabic—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Sayings
  • Riddles
  • Watermarks (Paper)
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Unbound.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 215
  • Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 295
  • Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 475
  • Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Bd. 17. Teil 1, no. 433
Author:
  • Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Created:
  • 1711-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1711
Abstract:
  • Short collection of sayings and proverbs. Incomplete at beginning. The text is followed on fol. 8a-b by five riddles and their answer by Suyūṭī (incomplete at end).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcq811kv280
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 147H
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Type:
  • Sayings
  • Riddles
Range label:
  • Logical
Scribe:
  • ʻArafāt, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAlī, active 18th century
Contributor:
  • عرفات، عبد الكريم بن علي active 18th century
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 147H
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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