Item Summary

Collection of several texts on religious matters, written by different hands. At the end of the copy, two inscriptions, the first dated 23 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884, mentioning Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muʻizz al-Awḥāfī(?) al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 108b).

Descriptive Information

Title
Ḥall al-rumūz wa-mafātīḥ al-kunūz. Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim ṭarīq al-taʻallum ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4333Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9w0323078
Publisher
Cairo, [1468-1495]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1468-1495
Format
Manuscript
Extent
109 leaves : paper ; 183 x 135 mm. bound to 185 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muṣṭafá Ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-ʻUmrī (al-ʻAmrī?), dated 22 Muḥarram 1296 [Jan. 16, 1879] ; and one in the name of Muḥammad Saʻūdī al-ʻUmrī (al-ʻAmrī?). Several ownership statements on fol. 4a, including one in the name of Rajab ibn Muḥammad known as Jaddī (repeated on fol. 72a); one in the name of Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Kharrāṭ, dated end of Muḥarram 1111 [July 1699], with mention of price; one in the name of Sayyid Muḥammad ibn shaykh Sulaymān. Several reading statements, one in the name of Muṣṭafá al-ʻUmrī (al-ʻAmrī?) al-Ḥanafī al-Dimashqī, dated 1296 H. [1879] (fol. 1a); one on fol. 4a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 7, 706, 2221, 2765
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-2b: Duʻāʼ mubārak.
2. fol. 3a-4a: [Several short excerpts and inscriptions, including verses of poetry].
3. fol. 4a-53a: Ḥall al-rumūz wa-mafātīḥ al-kunūz / [Ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2765.
4. fol. 53b-55b: [Several inscriptions and short texts, mainly versified prayers, some attributed to Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Balkhī, Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī, etc.].
5. fol. 56a-65b: Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim ṭarīq al-taʻallum / [Burhān al-Dīn al-Zarnūjī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 7.
6. fol. 66a-69a: [Several inscriptions and short texts, one attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, one mentioning al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulūsī, etc.].
7. fol. 69b-71b: al-Aḥādīth al-arbaʻūn al-nabawīyah / Rukn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd allāh al-Mundhirī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 706, with title: Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan fī faḍl iṣṭināʻ al-maʻrūf lil-muslimīn.
8. fol. 71bis(a-b): [Short texts, one entitled al-Muwākalah, the other Amthāl Aktham ibn Ṣayfī wa Burzujmahr al-Fārisī].
9. fol. 72a-107b: Kitāb Baḥr al-kalām fī uṣūl al-Dīn / Abū al-Muʻīn [Maymūn ibn Muḥammad] al-Nasafī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2221.
10. fol. 108a-b: Shakwá al-ḥāl qurb al-irtiḥāl [qaṣīdah].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: Number of lines per page varies (18 to 25). Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red by several hands. Similar paper throughout the copy: thick soft cream paper, glossy, some leaves with laid and chain lines visible. Rhymed prayer attributed to al-Badr ibn Raḍī al-Dīn al-Ghazzī on the pastedown of the upper cover. Handmade label pasted on the upper cover, with a table of contents in Arabic script. A few loose leaves.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH 129".
Origin: Text 1 written by Maḥmūd ibn Makkīyah(?) (fol. 2b); Text 3 written by Muḥammad Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn ʻAlī ibn al-...? al-Shāfiʻī al-Azharī, who completed his copy on 17 ...? 874 [1469 or 70] (fol. 53a); Text 5 copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-ḤṢBNī? al-Shāfiʻī, on Monday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 873 [May 22, 1469] (fol. 65b); Text 7 copied by the same on Thursday 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 783 (fol. 71b); Text 9 copied by the same on Monday 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 872 [June 28, 1468] in al-Qāhirah [Cairo] in the Qubbat al-Aqbughā, near the Jāmiʻ al-Azhar (fol. 107b); Text 10 (or ...?) copied in 900 H. [1494 or 5] (fol. 108b).
Incipit of Duʻāʼ (fol. 1a): الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله على كل نعمه ونسأل الله من كل خير ونعوذ بالله من كل شر ونستغفر الله من كل ذنب
Incipit of poetry (fol. 3b): متى يطلق القلب الاسير من الحبس ويصفو الى الوقت المكدر بالنفس
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind-tooled. Embossed leather doublure (covered by paper on the upper cover). Repairs.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic learning and scholarship—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
226

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3ce27e17-d056-451e-99c4-6b07164d417c/manifest