Sententiæ Ali ebn Abi Talebi
Subtitle: arabice et latine.
By: E codicibus manuscriptis descripsit, latine vertit, et annotationibus illustravit, Cornelius van Waenen.
Contributors: Waenen, Cornelis van, 1732-1806, ed. and tr.; ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad, al-Āmidī.; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Faḍl, called al-Maidānī, d. 1124.
Publisher: e typographeo Clarendoniano
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: ara; lat
Number of pages: 428
Notes: Arabic and Latin on opposite pages.
Contains a transcript of the "Nathr al-laʼālī" 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.