Item Summary

A collection of tratises in a variety of subjects, including tafsīr, theology, philosophy, metaphysics, semantics and science of time-keeping. Most are in Arabic, with few texts in Ottoman. Only texts 17 and 20 are dated, 3rd of Rajab 1096 and first 10 days of Rajab 1096 respectively (1685). Most texts are in same hand, appear to be contemporary and vary only slightly in style and layout.

Descriptive Information

Title
[مجموعة رسائل]
Transliterated Title
[Majmūʻat rasāʼil]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 819Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dz010s66k
Publisher
[1685]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1685
Format
Manuscript
Extent
130 leaves : paper ; 212 x 135 (130-160 x 65-105) mm. bound to 212 x 138 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 424, 571, 1130, 1131, 1739, 2512, 3118, 3125, 3126, 3128, 3421, 3795, 4994, 5020.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 598 (no. 8), S II, 669
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 293 (no. 3), S II, 317
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 281 (no. 14)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 283 (no. 20), S II, 308
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 268 (III), S II, 288
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 601 (no. 106), S II, 671
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. Fol. 1b: [Table of contents]
2. Fol. 2b: Tafsīr "Yawm yaqūmu al-rūḥ wa-al-malāʼikah"
3. Fol. 3a: [Ḥadīth "taken from Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf by Shaykh Akmal al-Dīn" and a short wird by Ibn al-ʻArabī]
4. Fol. 3b-7a: [blank]
5. Fol. 7b: Manlā Aḥmad al-Anṣārī ʻalá qawl al-Bayḍāwī [title from the table of contents].
6. Fol. 8a-8b: [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Tawbah]
7. Fol. 9a: [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Tawbah]
8. Fol. 9b-13b: Risālah mutaʻalliqah bi-iṣṭilaḥāt arbāb al-ḥadīth.
9. Fol. 14a-18b: [blank]
10. Fol. 19a-19b: [Risālat al-waḍʻ]
11. Fol. 21a: Maqādīr sharʻīyah [title from the table of contents].
12. Fol. 22a-24a: Tafsīr kabīr min Sūrat al-Aḥzāb.
13. Fol. 24b-28b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Mulk.
14. Fol. 29a-32b: al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.
15. Fol. 32b-37a: Risālah fī radd al-Risālah al-Walāʼīyah.
16. Fol. 37b-39a: Risālah fī afʻāl al-ʻibād.
17. Fol. 39b-43a: Risālat al-Zawrāʼ.
18. Fol. 43b-46b: [Sharḥ khuṭbat al-Zawrāʼ]
19. Fol. 47a-56a: [al-Ḥawrāʼ ʻalá al-Zawrāʼ]
20. Fol. 56b-63a: [Sharḥ al-dāʼirah al-Ḥindīyah]
21. Fol. 63b-64a: Risālah fī ḥall al-taʼrīkh.
22. Fol. 64a-64b: [Risālah fī al-gharaḍ wa-al-ghāyah]
23. Fol. 65a: [an inscription concerning verses (in a risālah) coined by Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān (d. 1586?)]
24. Fol. 65b-71b: [blank]
25. Fol. 72a-80b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-kalām fī mawqif al-maʼmūm wa-al-imām.
26. Fol. 81a-84a: [blank]
27. Fol. 84b-86a: Şeyhülislam hazretlerine maruz-i fakir (in Ottoman).
28. Fol. 86b-88b: [blank]
29. Fol. 89a-90a: Taʻlīqah ʻalá qānūn al-khabr min al-miftāḥ lil-ʻAfīf [title from the table of contents].
30. Fol. 90b-91a: [blank]
31. Fol. 91b: [a short paragraph containing a list of excerpts from a number of different works]
32. Fol. 92a-92b: [blank]
33. Fol. 93a-93b: Qānūn al-khabr min miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
34. Fol. 94a-95b: [blank]
35. Fol. 96a: [a short text on ʻilm al-uṣūl]
36. Fol. 96b: [a recipe (in Ottoman)]
37. Fol. 97a-99a: [blank]
38. Fol. 99b-112a: Esrârname [title from the table of contents; the text is a risālah (in Ottoman) in metaphysics, and includes commentaries on a selection of ḥadīth]
38. Fol. 112b-116b: [blank]
39. Fol. 117a-123a: [al-Tanbīh ʻalá ghalaṭ al-ḥāmil wa-al-nabīh]
40. Fol. 123a-125a: al-ʻIddah fī al-nisāʼ wa-al-rijāl [title from the table of contents; the text (in Ottoman) is an exposition by Ebussuud Efendi on the 'waiting time' between marriages]
41. Fol. 126a: [a short text in tafsīr]
42. Fol. 126b: Fawāʼid Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ.
43. Fol. 127a-129a: [blank]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Written surface varies. Catchwords present in most texts. Glazed European paper. An ownership signature, accompanied by a seal, in the name of Molla Sayyid Mehmet "protected by" Lalaʹzade on fol. 1a.
Binding Note
Brown leather. Gold guilloche and fillets around borders of covers. Gold tooled mesh pattern in diamond shape in the centre of upper and lower covers. Marbled paper pastedowns. Label on upper cover: "Majāmiʻ 27".

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Islam—Theology—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Creation (Islam)—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800
Horology—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800
Islamic chronology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
123

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/44005635-3970-4ccb-8112-c506afa29d3b/manifest