Item Summary

A treatise on the miracles performed by the saints while in the intermediate state between death and resurrection.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب السيوف الصقال في رقبة من ينكر كرامات الاوليا بعد الانتقال / تأليف عبد الباقي المقدسى الخزرجى الحنفى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Suyūf al-ṣiqāl fī raqabat man yunkiru karāmāt al-awliyāʼ baʻda al-intiqāl / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Maqdisī al-Khazrajī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1013H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsq87c621s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1743
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 195 x 140 (140 x 75) mm bound to 197 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Aḥmad al-Azʹharī[?] al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1529.
Khulāṣat al-Athar II, p. 285.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 1075 [1664/5]. Several fāʼidah on title page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 10 + i (later paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering "Provence" and "[star]DON..") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 19 Jumādá Awwal 1156 (fol. 10b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى منح اوليايه الكرامات في الحياة ... وبعد اشتهر السؤال في هذا الزمان عن كرامات ...
Colophon: قال مؤلفها زيد فضله تمت الرسالة على يد جامعها فقير رحمة ربه لطف الله به عبد الباقي المقدسي الحنفي عفي عنه سنة 1075 خمسة وسبعين بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا تحريرًا في 19 شهر جمادى اول سنة 1156
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed design.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
34

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fd455304-ad9d-4310-878a-2bad8e8ece83/manifest