Item Summary

Part 1, containing 45 majlis, of a paraenetic work written by the first imām of the 31st cavalry regiment (19th cent.). Autograph.

Descriptive Information

Title
حادي القلوب الى طاعة علام الغيوب
Transliterated Title
Ḥādī al-qulūb ilá ṭāʻat ʻallām al-ghuyūb.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3226Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z029p479q
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1942
Extent
i, 223, i leaves : paper ; 216 x 156 (170 x 117) mm. bound to 229 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2151
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b).
The name of the author appears in the beginning of the text as: "al-Sayyid Ṣāliḥ Wahbī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Yūsuf al-imām al-awwal fī al-lālāʾī al-ḥādī wa-al-thalāthīn min ʻasākir al-sawārīyah" (fol. 3b).
23 lines per page. Written in a thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for keywords. Light cream woven paper. On fol. 1b-2a: table of contents. Fol. 2b-3a: blank. Pagination in red ink between parentheses using Arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margin (starts at the beginning of the text, with "3" on fol. 4a).
On the upper cover fly-leaf, inscription in Arabic in red pencil: "Raqm 41".
Autograph copy (see colophon, fol. 223a).
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الواحد الاحد القديم الذى علم الانسان بفصله العميم ... اما بعد فيقول ... قد كنت عدة من الايام و برهة من الاعوام متصديا لافادة العوام بقرائة المواعظ النافعة
Explicit: ومن اعتمد عليه اعطه العطاء الجميل وقالوا حسبنا وفقنا وانا احمد الله على اتمام الجزء الاول من كتاب حادى ... و واسئله التوفيق لاتمام الجزء الثانى

Physical Characteristics

File Count
454

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af5c5183-f13f-4464-bdc2-e35481add1a7/manifest