Item Summary

A work of exhortation for a religious and moral life.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Text on Islamic ethics]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1098H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9963583343506421
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Extent
118 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 271 x 185 (190 x 125) mm. bound to 271 x 182 mm.
Provenance
Several obscured ownership signatures and one seal impression on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1938.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. The name of the author appears as Ḥarīmī on folio 77b. Magic squares on fol. 115. Inscriptions and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Fol. 117a-118b has extracts on prayer and religious behavior.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 118 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 leaves per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness. Folio 1 defective.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحنم رب يسرو عن سبحان الله وبحمده منتهى علمه العميم وسبحان الله العظيم مبلغ رضاه القسيم وملاء الميزان وزنة العرش العظيم
Colophon: ولا ختم الکتاب بدعاء نافع ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما دائما ابدا ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين
Binding Note
Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
246

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f212c575-94a8-49c3-ada5-8138d0a0c53a/manifest