Item Summary

Collection of two treatises by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī on the properties of Friday and on death. There is a table of contents of the second text on fol. 127a-b.

Descriptive Information

Title
نور اللمعة في خصوصية يوم الجمعة ؛ شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموت والقبور
Transliterated Title
Nūr al-lumʻah fī khuṣūṣīyat yawm al-Jumʻah ; Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawt wa-al-qubūr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 543Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/nz806227p
Publisher
[ 1486?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1486
Format
Manuscript
Extent
190 leaves: paper ; 186 x 135 (138 x 95) mm. bound to 186 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Two obliterated ownership statements on fol. 1a, one dated 10-7 H. the other with a seal dated 1088 H. [1677 or 8]. Ownership statement signed Abū al-Wafā Ibn Aḥmad al-Kawākibī (or: Kawākī) on fol. 26b, 28a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1828, 2544
Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 221, 403
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 438
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-26b: [Nūr al-lumʻah] fī khuṣūṣīyat yawm al-Jumʻah / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
2. fol. 28b-187b: Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawt wa-al-qubūr [incomplete at end] / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a (damaged) and 28b.
17 to 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānīyah" (see fol. 11a). The second text is foliated using Arabic numerals in black ink.
Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qādirī. Text 1 completed on 11 Ṣafar 891(?, Mach, R. Yahuda) [Feb. 16, 1486](colophon, fol. 26b).
Binding Note
Brown leather with geometrical blind tooling (star) over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather doublure (embossed?). Spine and covers damaged.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jumʻah—Early works to 1800
Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Tombs—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
194

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23494316-70b9-4c58-9d9c-3b8233ba43f2/manifest