Kitāb azhār al-afkār fī jawāhir aḥjār
By: lil-shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah al-Imām al-Tifāshī
Contributors: Muḥammad ʻAbduh, 1849-1905, former owner; Jawharī, Muḥammad Abū Hādī, former owner; Nīshī, Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan, former owner
Language: ara
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Precious stones; Mineralogy
Other titles: Kitāb al-jawāhir lil-Tifāshī
Work titles: Azhār al-afkār fī jawāhir al-aḥjār
Description: Work on gems and precious stones in 25 chapters, with each chapter devoted to a different stone.  Discusses the beauty, color, use, physical properties, crystalization, and medicinal and magical uses of minerals and gems.
Notes: Ms.

Paper: yellowed cream, watermarks, varies in thickness.  Leaves split from spine.  Red and black ink on title page; text is principally in black with chapter titles in red.  Marginal notes in different hands. Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-13.

Naskhi script; 17 lines in written area, 14 x 8 cm.

Fol. 1a-66b.

Binding: old cardboard covered with European wallpaper; leather spine.

Names of four owners on title page: Muḥammad Abū Hādī al-Jawharī al-Khālidī; ownership stamp of Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Maḥmūd ibn Ḥasan al-Nīshī (in red ink, scratched out); and ʻAlī Afandī al-[illegible] (dated 199 and scratched out).

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 15.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.