Item Summary

An extensive work on Sufism, followed by a poem on fol. 101a. Likely unique.

Descriptive Information

Title
غنية الطالبين في ايضاح طريق المشايخ العارفين / لابي الهدى.
Transliterated Title
Ghunyat al-ṭālibīn fī īḍāḥ ṭarīq al-mashāyikh al-ʻārifīn / li-Abī al-Hudá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 616
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v692t954p
Publisher
[1888]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1888
Format
Manuscript
Extent
101 leaves : paper ; 233 x 155 (180 x 94) mm. bound to 233 x 156 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 2007/3/1 (2007-80).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on modern glossy brown paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some insect damage, but text unaffected.
Origin: Completed 29 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1305 AH (7 August 1888) (fol. 100b).
Binding Note
Contemporary quarter morocco with flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism

Physical Characteristics

File Count
208

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/37d8afeb-ccfa-4226-88e6-50b2538276b6/manifest