Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr : manuscriptنزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر : مخطوطةSuyūṭī, 1445-1505, authorسيوطي، 1445-1505, author[1800?]araManuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, an anthology of poetical extracts on the relative charm of white, black, and "ruddy" womenIn Arabic.Romanization supplied by cataloger.Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh, wa-salāmun ʻalá ʻibādihi alladhīn iṣṭafá. Wa-baʻd, fa-qad allafa jamāʻah min al-udabāʼ fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd, fa-allafa Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Hirzibān Kitāb al-Sūdān wa-faḍḍalahum ʻalá al-bīḍān, wa-lā astakthiru hādhā ʻalayhi, fa-innahu allafa Kitāb Tafḍīl al-kilāb ʻalá kathīrin mimman labisa al-thiyāb, fa-idhā faḍḍala al-kilāb ʻalá banī Ādam lam yakthur ʻalayhi an yufaḍḍila al-sūdān ʻalá al-bīḍān ..."Available on microfilmScript: Fair modern (ca. 1800) naskhī, in red and black.Binding: In paper covered cardboard, Type III (without flap); green leather on spine.Decoration: Rubricated.On folio 1a: "Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá, wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Āmīn." To the left (in a different hand): "Wa-yalīhi 'al-Akhbār al-maʼthūrah fī al-iṭṭilāʼ bi-al-nūrah'. Wa-yalīhi 'Bulūgh al-maʼārib fī qaṣṣ al-shārib'. al-Jamīʻ lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī."With: 2 other titles by al-Suyūṭī: 1. al-Akhbār al-maʼthūrah fī al-iṭṭilāʼ bi-al-nūrah. 2. Bulūgh al-maʼārib fī qaṣṣ al-shārib.Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, wa-al-ḥamd lillāh waḥdah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi, wa-sallama taslīman kathīran sarmadā."