The sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talebi, in Arabic and Latin. / Cornelius van Waenen wrote it down from the manuscript codices, translated it into Latin, and illustrated it with annotations.
| Title | The sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talebi, in Arabic and Latin. / Cornelius van Waenen wrote it down from the manuscript codices, translated it into Latin, and illustrated it with annotations. |
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| Author | Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661. |
| Publication Date: | 1806 |
| Publication Place | Oxford: from the Clarendonian printer, 1806. - e typographeo Clarendoniano |
| Type | Book |
| Language | ara,lat |
| Digital | No |
| Manuscript | No |
| Pages Count | 428 |
| Physical Dimensions | xvi, 428 pages : portrait ; 28 x 23 cm |
| Library: | Penn Libraries |
| Library Asset ID | 2456242 |
| Record ID | 9931520283503681 |
| Library Location | University of Pennsylvania Libraries |
| Date | 1806 |
| Notes | Arabic and Latin on opposite pages., Contains a transcript of the "Nathr al-laʾālī" from the Leyden manuscript, with variant readings from the Paris codex and from "Proverbia quaedam Alis imperatoris muslemici," edited by Thomas Erpinius (1629), a selection from the London manuscript of the "Ghurar al-ḥikam," arranged in alphabetical order by ʻAbd al-Wāḥid al-Āmidi (11th cent.), and proverbs ascribed to ʻAlī in al-Maidānī's "Majmaʻ al-amthāl," based on the London manuscript and compared with variant readings by Everard Scheidius. |
