Item Summary

A commentary on Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح الحكم / للامام صفي الدين ابي المواهب الشاذلي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam / lil-Imām Ṣafī al-Dīn Abī al-Mawāhib al-Shādhilī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1037H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3n204970g
Publisher
[1663]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1663
Extent
201 leaves : paper ; 208 x 144 (152 x 84) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1582.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Short inscriptions on inside of upper cover and fol. 1a, a short text on fol. 200b and some poetry in Ottoman on fol. 201b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 196 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated.
Decoration: Simple headpiece of red and black lines. Opening spread frame-ruled with multiple, alternating red and black lines (fol. 1b-2a).
Origin: Copied by Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Salṭī and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1074 (1663) -- colophon (fol. 196b).
Incipit: من علامة الاعتماد على العمل نقصان الرجا عند وقوع الزلل لعلم نور الله قلبك بانوار المعارف
Explicit: فهذا الشهود كان مع الله فى الحضرة بالمعية و بعد ذلك تكون فى الحضرة العندية
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Blind fillets around borders, and blind-stamped mandorlas in the centre of covers. Similar decoration on flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. Binding is damaged and some sheets are loose.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
408

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c39a48f-e58a-4ff1-915f-798d213e0981/manifest