Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

P. 11 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: تحفة العروس ونزهة النفوس A well-known Arabic work on women and marriage entitled Tuhfatu'l-'Arús
wa-Nushatu'n-Nufús, by Abú 'Abdi'lláh Muhammad at-Tíjání (fl. 710/1310). See
Brockelmann, vol. II, p. 257, and Ahlwardt's Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. v,
pp. 609-610, No. 6386. The work contains twenty-five chapters (unnumbered),
some of which are subdivided into several sections, all of which are enumerated on
ff. 6-7. Begins:
بعد ، فأن
الحمد لله الذى سوغنا الفضل جزيلًا، وفضّلنا على كثير من خلقه تفضيلا الخ ... اما
الله تعالى بلطيف حكمته وما اورى فى ابداع العالم من عجائب قدرته خلق الانسان مجبولا على
الافتقار الخ The MS., from the Belshah collection acquired in 1920, comprises 200 ff. of
18'3 x 12 c. and 19 ll., is written in a poor modern riq'a, and was completed in
Jumádà 11, 1306/February, 1889.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 200
Dimensions: 18.3 × 12 cm.

Layout

19 lines

Hand(s)

poor modern riq'a

History

Origin: 1306 AH; 1889 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The MS., from the Belshah collection acquired in 1920

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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