Item Summary

A treatise on various questions of fiqh, theology, philosophy and ethics, extracted from and based on other works on those subjects.

Descriptive Information

Title
بستان.
Transliterated Title
Bustān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 336L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46rd116
Publisher
[1799]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1799
Extent
173 leaves : paper ; 214 x 154 (150 x 95) mm bound to 214 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 920.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I (211), SI (348).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Date 1218 (1803 or 4) follows the colophon on fol. 172b, probably refering to the date of the last three fol. (fol. 170-172) which are in a similar hand but on different paper and thus supplied later. Fol. 173a has a record of birth dated 16th of Rajab 1222 (1807).
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Written in a medium sized informal script in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Foliation in pancil in Western numerals. Watermarks (coat-of-arms).
Origin: Copied by Yaḥyá ibn Mullā Bakr ibn Mullā Ibrāhīm and completed on the 25th of Rajab 1214 (1799) -- colophon (fol. 172b).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... قال الفقيه الزاهد ابو الليث ... اني قد جمعت قي كتابي هذا فنونا من العلم
Explicit: وعجبت لمن رغب فى الجنه كيف لا يقول ما شاء الله لا قوة الا بالله ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى وصحبه اجمعين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and decorative brown paper with a silver pattern. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
355

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/553382ee-a3ed-4087-b9ba-cc07651e3b2c/manifest