Item Summary

A treatise on the Basmalah and the Ḥamdalah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رسالة لطيفة تتعلق بالبسملة والحمدلة والشكر والمدح / للفقير عبد الله بن علي سويدان الدمليجي الاشعري الشافعي الشاذلي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālah laṭīfah tataʻallaqu bi-al-basmalah wa-al-ḥamdalah wa-al-shukr wa-al-madḥ / lil-faqīr ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Suwaydān al-Damallījī al-Ashʻarī al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1129H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcp2677729z
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 170 x 118 (128 x 67) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1314.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 6 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (face-in-the-moon; three crescents; roman-alphabet letters "M[??]") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the early part of the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله علي افضاله والصلاة والسلام ... هذه رسالة تتعلق بالبسملة وبالحمد والشکر والمدح علي وجه لطيف والله التوفيق ...
Colophon: تم. نقلت بخط الفقير محمد الجعفري الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والمسلمين امين تم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Basmalah—Early works to 1800
Praise—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1881d3d6-01d1-40ba-838e-1f11f9dc2062/manifest