Item Summary

Copy of al-Būsnawī's work on the miʻrāj.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الهام الاهية في معراج خير البرية / تأليف حسن البوسنوي الشهير بامام‌زادة.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Ilhām ilāhīyah fī miʻrāj khayr al-barīyah / taʼlīf Ḥasan al-Būsnawī al-shahīr bi-Imāmʹzādah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2302Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d791sj81w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Extent
42 leaves : paper ; 195 x 128 (150 x 65) mm bound to 200 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Karīm ... al-Khazrajī? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 4571.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal annotations. Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 2302".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 42 (f. 42 later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; trimmed with edges folded to preserve notes ; watermarks (unidentified, roman-alphabet countermark initials "PA") ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى اسرى بعبده من مکة الى بيت المقدس الي السموات العلى ... وبعد ان الله سبحانه وتعالى لما فضل المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف وكرم على الانبياء علهم السلام واتاه ما لم يؤب احدا منهم ...
Colophon: واما اذا وجد فلا يتجاوز ذلك الحجاب حتى يقلعه من قلبه والله المستعان
Binding Note
Modern binding. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5372e757-fb56-4927-8b54-e0d28a1d87f4/manifest