Item Summary

The first volume of Dalīl al-fāliḥīn li-ṭuruq Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn. As stated in the colophon this volume comprises the first quarter of the book.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب دليل الفالحين لطرق رياض الصالحين / للشيخ محمد بن علي بن محمد بن ابراهيم بن علان الصديقى الشافعى.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Dalīl al-fāliḥīn li-ṭuruq Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn / lil-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAllān al-Ṣaddīqī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1063H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbg257s76b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
363 leaves : paper ; 208 x 160 (165 x 100-105) mm bound to 216 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1900.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 363 ; quired signed: 2-36 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three hats/boats?, roman-alphabet letters "FP") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 13 Ṣafar 1240 (fol. 363b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل ذكره رياض الصالحين ومنا جاته غذاء ارواح الفالحين ... وبعد فيقول العبد ... بن علان الصديقى الشافعي هذا ما رعت اليه الحاجة من وضع تقليق لطيف ...
Colophon: وكان الفراغ منها بنهار الاثنين ثالث عشر من صفر المبارك من شهور سنة اربعين ومايتين والف
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandora and blind-tooled edging. Not sewn. Flap is missing. Cover possibly re-used with flap removed because the covers aren't wide enough for the MS.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
738

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/3b67cf68-e9cb-40dd-a86b-f07cc2f54014/manifest