Item Summary

Autograph copy of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints and their virtues, arranged in alphabetical order of their names. Followed by a biographical dictionary of the lives of 36 eminent Ṣūfīs who lived in the 11th century Hijri arranged according to the alphabetical order of their names.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الاصفيا بمناقب الاوليا ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ bi-manāqib al-awliyāʼ ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 206H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbk128n06d
Publisher
Rabīʻ I 1024- Rabīʻ I 1025 [April 1615-April 1616]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1615-1616
Format
Manuscript
Extent
68 leaves : paper ; 198 x 146 (140 x 80) mm bound to 199 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 707, 708.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Title page of Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ has a statement that the MS is in the author's hand, obscured ownership statements, and other additions. Table of contents runs from the title page to fol. 3a. Preceding the start of the second text (fol. 56b-57a) is a table of contents and three additional names taken from the Ṭabaqāt of al-Shurnūbị, 931-994 [1524/5-1585/6]. Fol. 68a carries several inscriptions. Insert describes MS.
1. fol. 1a-56a: Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ bi-manāqib al-awliyāʼ / ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn al-Munāwī al-Ḥaddādī.
2. fol. 56b-67a: Ṭabaqah fī tarājim al-sādah al-Ṣūfīyah al-mawjūdīn fī al-qarn al-ḥādī ʻashar.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 68 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "RA", circular design) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (fol. 3b). Fol. 3b and 4a have gilt frame. Gilt design on edges of text block.
Origin: [Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ] Copied in the middle of the third month [Rabīʻ I] of 1024 (fol. 56a) -- [Ṭabaqah fī tarājim] Copied end of Rabīʻ I 1025 (fol. 67a).
Incipit: [تحفة الاصفية] الحمد لله الذي رفع الذين اوتوا العلم درجات -- [طبقة في تراجم] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل المصطفى خاتم اوليائه
Colophon: [تحفة الاصفية] تم تحفة الاصفياء بمناقب الاولياء في العشر الاوسط من الشهر الثالث من السنة الرابعة بعد الف وعشرين. کتاب کتبه تاج الدين المناوي -- [طبقة في تراجم] وتم الکتاب وکان الفراغ من تعليقه في اواخر ربيع الاول سنة 1025
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and green embossed paper. Violet pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Embossed papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
152

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3d896126-1bce-4af7-be16-c9bb96435eed/manifest