Item Summary

An elaborate discussion of the Night Journey and the Ascension of the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب النور الوهاج في الكلام على الاسراء والمعراج / تأليف علي الاجهوري
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Nūr al-wahhāj fī al-kalām ʻalá al-isrāʼ wa-al-miʻrāj / taʼlīf ʻAlī al-Ujhūrī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 243H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8w32rg81f
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1669
Extent
106 leaves : paper ; 209 x 153 (160 x 97) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Fol. 1a has the signature of Ibrāhīm al-Mūsá.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2610.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 317.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 447.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 665.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 106 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (star with a crescent on top, roman-alphabet letters "RD") ; MS in good condition but loose.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 10 Rabīʻ II 1080 by ʻĀmir ibn ʻĀmir al-Turūḥī (fol. 106a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم المعراج بحمد الله وعونه يوم السبت المبارك عاشر شهر ربيعي [ربيع] الاخر من شهورسنة ثمانين والف على يد العبد الفقير عامر بن عامر التروحي غفر الله له ولوالديه امين. م
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. قال الشيخ الامام
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
216

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb5aa987-dce8-4ea1-b03c-4ed1aa149bb6/manifest