al-Ḥikam al-sanīyah wa-al-marāshif al-aqdasīyah, [1208, i.e. 1794].

Collection of pithy wise sayings and prayers. Description provided by Alison Vacca.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 610Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.119a-119b (p.237-238) copied by Khiḍr ibn Yūsuf al-Nābulusī al-ʻAqrabānī for his brother al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ. Transcription finished ("wāfaqa al-farāgh min naskh hādhā al-ḥikam...istiktāban...") Sunday the last day of Rajab 1208 [ca. 3 March 1794].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 105c" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown and cream mottled paper with red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (leather edged / leather framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; interior of envelope flap in same brown and cream decorative paper ; interior of fore edge flap in dark brown cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in laid European paper with partial watermark ("FF . PA") ; in good condition.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm., chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 25-30 mm. apart ; countermark "C S" visible in fol.5, fol.102, etc. ; flyleaves and pastedowns in a different European laid paper (chain lines running vertically and spaced roughly 30 mm. apart) with partial watermark or counter mark "FF . PA" ; final singulon appears to be of still a different European laid paper with chain lines running vertically and spaced 25-28 mm. and laid lines spaced roughly 7-8 laid lines per cm., cresent watermark in fol.199.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section headings in red.Script: Naskh ; Syrian (?) hand ; virtually serifless ; strong horizontal character.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: i, 10 V(100), VI (112), III (118), I (120), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular and triangular, reads: "وافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الحكم يوم الاحد سلخ رجب الحرام المبارك الذي هو من شهور سنة ثمان وميتين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازكى السلام واسنى التحية على يد كاتبها الحقير الكسير الفاني خضر بن يوسف النابلسي العقرباني استكتابا الى اخيه الحاج محمد الخياط جعل في حفظ الاسباط آمين آمين والحمد لله رب العالمين عامله الله بالطافه الخفية وثبت جنانه على هذه الملة الحنفية وسلك به طريق الاسعار وبلغه اقصى المرار الحمد لولي الحمد حمدا يفوق حمد الحامدين على ممر السنين والشهور والايام والساعات وابد الابدين وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين الحمد لله رب العالمين آمين م م م"Explicit: "وما تحقق العارف بنيل المقام وسلم تسليما كثيرا على ممر الايام امين امين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين "Incipit: "وهو حسبي وعليه اتوكل وفوضت الامر اليه فالتفويض للعبد اجمل ... وبعد فهذه نبذة يسيرة من المعارف والحكم"Title from inscription on fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.Collection of pithy wise sayings and prayers. Description provided by Alison Vacca.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.Inscription on fol.120b (p.240) is difficult to make out but reads "... الحاج علي اغا ... اغا في الشام" ; a few marginal corrections ; prayer copied in a different hand on fol.120a (p.239) ; arithmetic or accounts scribbled on fol.120b (p.240)