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رسالة في كيفية الوحى / لاحمد الكفوي. والنجوم الزواهر باستخارة المسافر.
Risālah fī kayfīyat al-waḥy / li-Aḥmad al-Kaffawī. Wa-al-Nujūm al-zawāhir bi-istikhārat al-musāfir.
1700-1799
A treatise on the methods of revelation following by a short treatise on the prayers of travelers.
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- [18th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1019H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the methods of revelation following by a short treatise on the prayers of travelers.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في كيفية الوحى / لاحمد الكفوي. والنجوم الزواهر باستخارة المسافر.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī kayfīyat al-waḥy / li-Aḥmad al-Kaffawī. Wa-al-Nujūm al-zawāhir bi-istikhārat al-musāfir.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1019H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504rx96m
- Publisher
- [18th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1799
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 8 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155 (145 x 75-110) mm bound to 215 x 156 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Ḥasan al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1533, 1959.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-6a: Risālah fī kayfīyat al-waḥy / lil-Kaffawī. A treatise on the methods of revelation.
- 2. fol. 6b-8b: al-Nujūm al-zawāhir bi-istikhārat al-musāfir. A short treatise on the prayers of travelers.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from label on cover.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 8 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Watermarks (later endpaper: lion; text: unidentified mark) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
- Incipit: [رسالة في كيفية الوحى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي انزل القران بلسان عربى مبين ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف ... احمد ابن حسن الكفوي الحنفي ... -- [النجوم الزواهر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل الاستخاره من الامور المهمة ...
- Colophon: [رسالة في كيفية الوحى] تمت الرسالة ... والحمد لله وحده وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل ولا حول ولاقوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين صلاة وسلاما الى يوم الدين امين امين -- [النجوم الزواهر] وينبغي ان يدعو في حالة اخذه في السفرالى رجوعه لاعز احبابه واولاده لان دعوة المسافر مستجابة کما وردت الاحاديث بذلك والله اعلم تم
- Binding Note
- Later limp covering of marbled paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 28
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c526c7d5-29be-45c6-b1f8-c2abcb34041b/manifest