Item Summary

A glossary of the ninety-nine names of God.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح اسماء الله الحسنى / للنفزي. وحلية النبي وخواصها وغيره.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná / lil-Nafazī. Wa-Ḥilyat al-Nabī wa-khawāṣṣihā wa-ghayrih.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1121H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpg15bs594
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
14 leaves : paper ; 194 x 129 (160 x 75) mm bound to 204 x 141 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1953.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
First page is by a different, and possibly earlier, hand. Miscellaneous fawāʼid (fol. 11b-12b), Ḥilyat Rasūl Allāh (fol. 13b-14a) and a tradition (fol. 14a), all cut off at the edges of the paper.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; written in Fārisī and general scripts ; watermarks (anchor topped by a star) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XlXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم وبعد فهذه الورقات تشتمل على شرح اسماء والتصريف بها منقول من كلام الشيخ ... النفزى ...
Colophon: وصبرعلى مضّ الطاعات وترک الشهوات فاز بالحظ الاوفى من هذا الاسم
Binding Note
Later limp covering in purple paper with lined with blue paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

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/6a7adb93-4ace-4d33-88ca-c6157b5ef246/manifest