Item Summary

Autograph of a treatise on conduct and physiognomy.

Descriptive Information

Title
العجالة الوافية في السياسة الدينية والدنيوية واحكام الفراسة الحكمية / للفقير عبد الرزاق بن السيد عبد الفتاح بن السيد مصطفى بن ... سيد المرسلين علي بن ابي طالب.
Transliterated Title
al-ʻUjālah al-wāfiyah fī al-siyāsah al-dīnīyah wa-al-dunyawiyah wa-aḥkām al-firāsah al-ḥukmīyah / lil-Faqīr ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá ibn ... Sayyid al-mursalīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 546H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnp193m806
Publisher
Istanbul, [1854]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 174 x 113 (125 x 70) mm. bound to 174 x 121mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 951
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 774 (no. 6)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Interlinear and marginal notes in the same hand. Some leaves are folded to preserve marginal notes from being cut off by the trimming of the leaves. On fol. 1a, in the same hand: biographical note on "Sīdī Aḥmad al-Zāhid" ; note on the text. Inscription "69" in Arabic numerals on the lower edge.
The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text as : ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Lādhiqānī (fol. 2a), and in the colophon as : ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Ḥusaynī nasaban al-Lādhiqānī baladan (fol. 68a). The title page gives the complete genealogy of the author (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 72 + ii ; a (marbled paper) + ii (endpaper) + 68 + ii (endpaper) + a (marbled paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; notes, overlining and other marks in red ink ; watermarks.
Origin: Written on 5 Shawwāl 1270 [July 1854] in Istanbul ("Dār al-khilāfah al-ʻalīyah") by the author (colophon, fol. 68a).
Incipit: بسم ... حمدا لمن اكرم من شاءَ من عبادِه بمحاسنِ الشيمِ المُستَجادَه ... وبعد [2أ] فيقول العبد الفقير الفاني عبد ... اللّاَذِقاني ... اِنَّه لما قدّر اللهُ الذي ليس لعبدِه فيما قدّر
Explicit: فَقَدر بذكرِ صِفَاتِكم تا[...](؟) عَذْبَ المرشف وبوصفكم ارخ بدا ختامه مسكاوني سنه ١٢٧٠
Binding Note
Contemporaneous half-bound type III (without flap) binding in leather and blue paper with block-pressed design over pasteboards. Marbled paper for pastedowns and endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Physiognomy—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
166

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fdd865e5-7f6c-4e93-9717-afd15db3a713/manifest