Item Summary

Portion of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب حلية الاولياء. جزء 2-6 / لابي نعيم.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ. Juzʼ 2-6 / li-Abī Nuʻaym.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205H(i)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46r998x
Publisher
[14th-15th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
94 leaves : paper ; 208 x 162 (155 to 160 x 134) mm. bound to 210 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʾ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 [1110], the other 906? [1501?], signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Brill ; 1900.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 669
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-30b: al-Juzʼ al-thānī (entries no. 2 to 11).
2. fol. 31a-46b: al-Juzʼ al-thālith (entries no. 12 to 21).
3. fol. 47a-62a: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (entries no. 22 to 27).
4. fol. 63a-78a: al-Juzʼ al-khāmis (entries no. 28 to 34).
5. fol. 79a-94a: al-Juzʼ al-sādis (entries no. 35 to 37).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title also appears on the lower edge (illegible). Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʼ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 [1110], the other 906? [1501?], signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Inscription in another hand on fol. 94 b (ḥadīth).
Collation: Paper, fol. 94 ; 1¹⁶ ( -1, following fol. 15) 2¹⁶ ( -1, before fol. 16) 3-6¹⁶ ; quires numbered using Arabic ordinals from the third quire (numbered "al-rābiʻ") to the sixth quire (numbered "al-sābiʻ"), not visible on the fifth quire (fol. 63a) ; each juzʼ corresponds to a quire, except juzʼ 2 which comprises two quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: Written in a very casual medium small script using black ink. The entries and parts of the text are written in a larger script ; some vowel signs.
Paper: Dark cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible.
Incipit: بسم ... قال الشيخ الامام الحمد للّه اخبرنا الشيخ ابو علي الحسن بن احمد بن الحسن بن الحداد المقدسي (؟) قراه عليه من كتبه وسماعه من ابو نعيم ... ... بن اسحاق قال وثاني القوم الفاروق ذو المقام الثابت المانوق.
Explicit: عن سعيد بن عامر مُسْنداً مُخْتصَراً آخر الجز ... يتلوه ... في الجزء الذي يليه ومنهم عُميْر بن سعد ... وحده.
The last leaf of the first quire and the first leaf of the second quire are missing (between fol. 15 and 16). The portion of text lost corresponds to Ed. Cairo (1932), p. 70, l. 24 - p. 73, l. 11: حدثنا ابو الربيع قال حدثنا حماد قال احدثنا] ... [شيء من خلقه انتفاع.
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboards, with blue paper pasted on the upper and lower covers and the envelope flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
200

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/2d411094-161b-4f48-b2c7-967f87ff515e/manifest