Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب الاذكار / تأليف الامام العالم العامل الورع الزاهد المتقن المحقق محيي الدين يحيى بن شرف بن مري بن حسن بن حسين النواوي قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه بمنه وكرمه

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Adhkār / taʾlīf al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-warʻ al-zāhid al-muttaqin al-muḥaqqiq Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf ibn Murī ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Nawāwī qaddasa Allāh rūḥahu wa-nawwara ḍarīḥahu bi-mannihi wa-karamih.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 94Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c247dv71w

Publisher

ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, [1324]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1324

Format

Manuscript

Extent

192 leaves : paper ; 247 x 173 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 255 x 185 mm.

Provenance

Audition statement mentioning Damascus on fol. 1a. Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of al-Shaykh Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Darūbī [Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad Darūbī] and of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad. Ownership and reading statements on fol. 190b-191a, Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1722

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 1a).

Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. The text is partially vocalized. Fol. 43-44 and 51-54 are later replacements. Marginal annotations. The text has been collated. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including audition statements (samāʻ) and ownership statements. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Thānī" on fol. 9a).

Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 453" and "Raqm 718".

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ilyās ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khaṭīb bi-ʻAyn al-Zaytūn [near Ṣafad], Friday 10 Muḥarram 725 [Dec. 1324] (fol. 190a, collation statements on the margin).

Incipit: بسم ... وما توفيقى الا بالله عليه توكلت قال الشيخ الامام العللم العامل الورع الزاهد المتقن المحقق محيي الدين يحيى بن شرف بن مري بن حسن بن حسين النواوي رحمه الله الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركم

Explicit: وساير الصالحين اخر الكتاب قال مصنفه ابو زكريا يحيي بن شرف غفا الله عنه فرغت من جمعه في محرم سنه سبع وستين وستمايه

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards with flap. The covers have a central panel defined by fillets with a border consisting of two running patterns, one with small gold stamped dots. The panel is heavily tooled, with a geometrical pattern developing from a central twelve pointed star. Gold stamped dots. Similar geometrical pattern on the envelope flap, with a medallion filled with a six pointed star. Rebacked ; fore-edge flap is a later replacement. Modern paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—History—13th century—Sources

Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

200

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/eec62be0-c8d8-4f2c-9e32-0b41c4acd69d/manifest

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