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كتاب البركه في السعي والحركه / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن عمر الحبيشي الوصابي.
Kitāb al-Barakah fī al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥubayshī al-Waṣābī.
1678
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1067H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب البركه في السعي والحركه / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن عمر الحبيشي الوصابي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Barakah fī al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥubayshī al-Waṣābī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1067H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnc5810343
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1678
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 299 leaves : paper ; 200 x 145 (151 x 95) mm bound to 203 x 143 mm.
- Provenance
- Signatures: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Aḥmad Jūrbaḥī ibn Muḥammad Jūrbaḥī al-shahīr bi-al-Sharīʻī; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1910.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 45.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 117.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 749.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Short inscriptions on folio after colophon.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 299 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 12 Jumād al-Akhīr 1089 (fol. 298b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الملك الجواد الهادي الي سبيل الرشاد ... اما بعد فاني لما رأيت اهل بلادنا هذه في الك[س]ب والدين و علي الاشتغال بالحروف معتمجين ...
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه ضحى يوم الاثنين المبارك ثاني عشر جمادى الاخير الذي هو من شهور سنة تسعة وثمانين والف غفرالله لقارئه وکاتبه ولمن حواه ولمن دعا لکاتبه بالمغفرة امين امين امين
- Binding Note
- Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on covers. Blind-tooled frame with small stamped sun decorations on covers, spine and flap. Blind-stamped floral design on flap. Upper cover is missing.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 607
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/ba8f10a3-9344-427c-90a6-93cf912c807c/manifest