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Nathr al-laʼālī : manuscript
Creator
طبرسي، الفضل بن الحسن، -1153.
Uniform Title
Nathr al-laʼāliʼ
نثر اللآلي
Title
Nathr al-laʼālī : manuscript / al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarsī.
نثر اللآلي : مخطوطة / الفضل بن الحسن الطبرسي.
Production
Place not identified, 18th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (20 leaves) ; 18 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from incipit.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Hādhā Kitāb Nathr al-laʼālī min kalām Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī ibn Abīṭālib, ʻalayhi al-salām, ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-muʻjam, rawāhu al-Shaykh al-ajall Abū ʻAlī al-Ṭabarsī, ṣāḥib 'Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān', ṭayyaba Allāh tharāh."
البداية: "هذا كتاب نثر اللآلي من كلام مولانا أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبيطالب، عليه السلام، على ترتيب حروف المعجم، رواه الشيخ الأجلّ أبو علي الطبرسي، صاحب 'مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن'، طيّب الله ثراه."
Secundo folio: Īmān al-marʼ yuʻrafu bi-aymānih.
بداية الورقة الثانية: إيمان المرء يعرف بأيمانه.
10.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 6 x 13 cm; 8 lines per page.
Binding: In cardboard cover; red cloth on spine.
In fair large calligraphic naskh script; in black ink, on cream color paper; headings and markings in red; catchwords.
On the sticker pasted to the front cover: "Ṭabarsī. Nathr al-laʼālī."
على الملصقة على وجه الغلاف: "طبرسي. نثر اللآلي."
On folio 1a: Illegible scribbles.
Laid in card: "From the previous sayings of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, as it is arranged and narrated by Abū ʻAlī al-Ṭabarsī. Ḥadīth ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as narrated by al-Ṭabarsī. Arranged alphabetically."
Laid in card: "MS Ḥadīth of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib."
Colophon: "Tammat al-kalimāt al-murtaḍawīyah wa-al-ʻibārāt al-ʻAlawīyah bi-ḥamd Allāh taʻālá wa-ḥusn tawfīqih, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh awwalan wa-ākhiran wa-ẓāhiran wa-bāṭinan."
الخاتمة: "تمت الكلمات المرتضوية والعبارات العلوية بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه، والحمد لله أولًا وآخرًا وظاهرًا وباطنًا."
Translation of the colophon: "The gratifying sayings and the Alawite/Sublime statements were completed by the praise of God and His abundant benevolence. Praise be to God in the beginning and at the end, explicitly and implicitly."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
"Nathr al-laʼālī" (Scattered pearls), a collection of sayings (apothegms), attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth Caliph (approximately 600-661), compiled and arranged alphabetically by Abū ʻAlī al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarsī (died 1153), a prominent Shiʻī "mufassir" (Qurʼān commentator) and philologist (See: Ziriklī 5:148). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Variant and related titles
Kitāb Nathr al-laʼālī
كتاب نثر اللآلي
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2022
References
al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarsī, Nathr al-laʼālī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarsī, Nathr al-laʼālī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century.
Also listed under
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، حوالي 600-661.
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