Item Summary

An eschatological treatise on the signs and prognostics of the day of judgment.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب اشراط الساعة / للشيخ علي المنشليلي المالكي الازهري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Ashrāṭ al-sāʻah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Manshalīlī al-Mālikī al-Azʹharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1004H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5x21tt005
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1803
Extent
68 leaves : paper ; 223 x 159 (150 x 95) mm bound to 223 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1509.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title page has fāʼidah, prayer, and signatures.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 68 ; quires signed: 1-7 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended. Last folio is defective.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1217 by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Jawād al-Mālikī al-Azʹharī al-Miṣrī (fol. 68a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله القايم علي كل نفس ... وبعد فيقول ... على المنشليلي المالكى ... قد خطر ببالي ان اضع رسالة في اشراط الساعة ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة يوم الاثنين المبارك خامس يوم من شهرذي الحجة الذي هو من شهور سنة 1217 الف ومائتين وسبعة عشر على يد کاتبه الفقيرالى الله محمد عبدالجواد المالکي الازهري المصري غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولجميع المسلمين بمنه وکرمه امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Endband.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
148

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/f8b79c71-39f7-4898-823b-53a7c4d22f8d/manifest