Item Summary

Vol. 8 of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, starting with the life of Saʻīd ibn ʻĀmir ibn Ḥudhaym al-Jumaḥī.

Descriptive Information

Title
من كتاب حلية الاولياء وطبقة الاصفياء الجزء الثامن وفيه ذكر سعيد بن عامر بن حذيم الجمحي.
Transliterated Title
Min Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ wa-ṭabaqat al-aṣfiyāʼ al-juzʼ al-thāmin wa-fīhi dhikr Saʻīd ibn ʻĀmir ibn Ḥudhaym al-Jumaḥī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205Hq(iii)
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctd96kf352
Publisher
[1413]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1413
Extent
222 leaves: paper ; 275 x 180 (185 x 115) mm bound to 275 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and two seals (illegible) on fol. 1a. One statement in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Isḥāq ; one in the name of al-Ḥājj Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad Ibn Salīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Salīm ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻĪsá al-SḤ--?. One circular seal repeated throughout (see fol. 88a). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 671.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
15 lines per page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 222 ; 1¹⁰ (+2, fol. 1-2) 2-8¹⁰ 9¹⁰ (+1, fol. 88) 10-20¹⁰ 21¹² (+2, fol. 216-217) 22⁴ (+1) ; after the two first fol. beginning of a quire numbered "thānī ʻasharīn" on fol. 3a ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large script in black ink with use of dark red. Glazed light cream paper with regular laid lines and some chain lines visible. Title on tail of text block (illegible).
Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 816 by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭawīl (fol. 222b).
Incipit: ومنهم سعيد بن عامر بن حذيم الجحمى رضي الله عنه زهد في الفتانة
Explicit:[220ب] ومنهم حليف الخوف والحزن ... ابو سعيد الحسن بن ابي الحسن الفقيه الزاهد ... [222ب] وليشتدّن في الدنيا خوفك وليلئزن في الدنيا بكاؤك تمت الكتاب الشريف
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-tooled and punched central medallion and elaborate outer frame on both covers and envelope flap. Spine cloth visible. Leather doublure.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
456

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/fea56c5e-6e65-4beb-a746-2238b1b8d1b9/manifest