Item Summary

A commentary on the work of Najm al-Dīn al-Ghayṭī, 981 [1573] on the Night Journey and the Ascension of the Prophet entitled Qiṣṣat al-miʻrāj.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح على قصة المعراج للشيخ نجم الدين الغيطي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ ʻalá Qiṣṣat al-miʻrāj lil-Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Ghayṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 242H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsq87c4805
Publisher
Shawwāl 1071 [June 1661]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1661
Format
Manuscript
Extent
69 leaves : paper ; 228 x 169 (178 x 128) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 664.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 69 ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-7 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crest) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes. After the colophon is a verse of poetry.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied end of Shawwāl 1071 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dunūsharī al-Azharī (fol. 69a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: ثم المعراج المبارك بحمد الله وعونه ومزيد حسن توفيقه وبلغ مقابلة وتصحيحا على نسخة مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى وذلك على يد کاتبه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله من بعده العبد الفقير المعترف بمزيد العجز والتقصير محمد بن الفقير احمد بن الفقير محمد الدنوشري الازهري غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن احسن اليهم واليه ولجميع محبيه واقار به وذويه تحريرا في اواخر شوال سنة احدى وسبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم امين امين امين
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله المان على عباده بنعم لاتحصى
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj—Early works to 1800
Ghayṭī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1504 or 1505-1573 or 1574—Qiṣṣat al-Miʻrāj
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
142

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/16b80e37-5cd6-4a5d-b380-5e04173749d2/manifest