Descriptive Information

Title

شرح فصوص الحكم / للعالم العلامة والمرشد الفهامة مولانة الشيخ نور الدين عبد الرحمن الجامي ... .

Transliterated Title

Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam / lil-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah wa-al-murshid al-fahhāmah Mawlānah al-Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ... .

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 766Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m613n122b

Publisher

[1842]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1842

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 143, i leaves : paper ; 245 x 177 (190 x 110) mm. bound to 247 x 182 mm.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 2706.

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 572 (11, cmt. h)

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 793 (12, cmt. g)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from fol. 2a.

Copied by Ibrāhīm bin Fayḍ Allāh bin Ismāʻīl al-Qrīmī(?) on the 23rd of "Jumādá al-Ākhirah/Rajab"(?) 1258 (1842) -- colophon (fol. 141b).

27 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Fol. 2 is two leaves pasted together, the first of which has a table of contents on the verso which is now not visible and was re-written, in black ink with use of red for page numbers, on the verso of fol. 1. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals and in pencil in Western numerals start with 1 on fol. 3. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Circular ownership seal on fol. 2a in the name of al-Shaykh Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥarīrī al-Khalwatī, dated 1288 (1871-72).

Incipit: الحمد لله الذى زين خواتم قلوب ... اما بعد فاعلم ان الحكم الفائضة من الحق سبحانه على قلوب كل عباده

Explicit: لقد وفق للفراغ عن فك ختام هذه الفصوص وكشف ايهام هذه النصوص العبد المتذلل بالشخوص بين يدى عموم اهل الخصوص عبد الرحمن ابن احمد الجامى ... غرة جمادى الاولى المنتظمة فى سلك شهور سنة ست وتسعين وثمانمائة وصلى الله ...

Binding Note

Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled mandorlas with pendants in the center of upper and lower covers. Gold tooled border design on upper and lower covers made with gold guilloche, gold fillets and rosetta stamps, only partially visible as the edges of covers, the spine and the fore-edge flap are repaired in different dark burgundy leather. Gold fillets, and a smaller mandorla-like gold stamp on envelope flap. Endleaves in green glazed paper. Lining to fore-edge and envelope flaps in dark cream paper.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ibn al-ʻArabī 1165-1240—Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam

Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800

Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Metaphysics—Early works to 1800

God (Islam)—Wisdom—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

146

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af9c329f-7366-41cd-82fd-42c1385d658a/manifest

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