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Summary of Contents: كتاب الفرايد والقلايد شرح الحروف الجامع بين العارف والمعروف وغيره The contents of this volume, which is written by different hands, are as follows: 1. (ff. 1-36.) Kitábu l-Fard id wa'l-Qala id, an Arabic work on ethics and belles-lettres by Abu'l-Husayn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Ahwazi (4th cent. A.H.). See Brockelmann, Gesch. d. Arab. Litt., vol. I, p. 96; Dozy, Leiden Cat., vol. I, p. 194, and vol. IV, p. 197; Flügel, Vienna Cat., vol. III, p. 269. In some copies it is falsely ascribed to Tha'álibi or to Qábús ibn Washmgír. The titles of the eight chapters into which it is divided are given on f. 4 as in the Vienna Catalogue. Begins: الحمد لله العلى الكبير القوى القدير Clear pointed nakh, 15 ll to the page. According to the colophon (f. 36) the date of transcription was A.H. 461, but the words have been supplied by a later hand. 2. (ff. 37-38) A number of sayings attributed to the Prophet, 'Alí, and others 3 (ff. 38-57) Sharl-Huráf al-jáni bayna'l Arif al-Ma'ruf, a treatise in Arabic on the mystical significance of the Letters of the Alphabet, by Ibrahim ibn Muhammad at-Tá'úsí of Qazwin. The present MS., which appears to be unique, is an autograph and is dated 658/126 C. Small, neat, and closely written ta'liq, 28 ll. to the page. Begins الحمد لله الذي تحير من وجدان ريح نفسه المتحيرون 4. (ff. 58-71.) A devotional tract written in Persian but consisting almost entirely of Arabic prayers. Begins: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... معين و مبین است بنزد ارباب بصیرت و اصحاب حقيقت كه حق جل ذكره انسان را که خلاصه و زبده موجودانست الخ Ff. 71 of 17 x 12,5c. One of forty-seven MSS. bought of Hajji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920.

1. ff. 1b-36a

Author: Ahwāzī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ahwāzī اهوازي، محمد بن الحسين ابو الحسين

Title: Kitāb al-farāʼid wa-al-qalāʼid

Title: كتاب الفرائد والقلائد

Language(s): Arabic

2. ff. 37a-38a

Title: Sayings attributed to the Prophet, ʻAlī and others

Language(s): Arabic

3. ff. 38b-57a

Author: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʼūsī al-Qazwīnī ابراهيم بن محمد الطاؤوسي القزويني

Title: Sharḥ al-ḥurūf al-jāmiʻ bayna al-ʻārif wa-al-maʻrūf

Title: شرح الحروف الجامع بين العارف والمعروف

Language(s): Arabic

4. ff. 58b-71a

Author: anonymous

Title: Devotional tract written in Persian but consisting almost entirely of Arabic prayers

Language(s): Persian, Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 71

Dimensions: 7 × 12.5 cm.

Layout

Clear pointed naskh, 15 lines

Small, neat, and closely written ta'liq, 28 lines

Hand(s)

Clear pointed naskh, and small, neat, and closely written ta'liq

History

Origin: 0461 AH; 1068 CE 685 AH; 1260 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

One of forty-seven MSS. bought of Hajji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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