Item Summary

A collection of dissertations on certain passages in the Qurʼan and traditions, and on several moral questions.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتب روضة العاشقين وزهرة الطلبين / تأليف احمد الحنيف الملخص بالحموني.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kit[ā]b Rawḍat al-ʻāshiqīn wa-zahrat al-ṭ[ā]libīn / taʼlīf Aḥmad al-Ḥanīf al-mulakhkhaṣ bi-al-Ḥamūnī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 600H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc44558q92k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1662
Extent
130 leaves : paper ; 203 x 149 (145 x 80) mm bound to 203 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Signature of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1242.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4537.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Evidently some folios are missing between folios one and two. Folio after colophon has an inscription in Ottoman Turkish and birth notices dated 1259 and 1252.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 130 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; countermark flower with roots) ; MS in good condition; mended.
Origin: According to colophon copied 9 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 1073 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Aḥmadī (fol. 130a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الله تعالى في سورة الانفطار ان الابرار اى المومنين المصدقين سروم لفى نعيم في جنة ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ منه في تاسع شهر ربيعي [ربيع] الاخر من شهور سنة 1073 م على يد افقر العباد الى لطف الملك الجواد الفقير محمد بن محمد بن احمد الاحمدي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والاقربين اليه امين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
268

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/81af264b-e35e-4fef-8ce9-828a576badcb/manifest