Descriptive Information

Title

اربعون الودعانية ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Arbaʻūn al-Wadʻānīyah ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4278Y

Identifier

ark:/88435/0k225h558

Publisher

[1400-1499]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1400-1499

Format

Manuscript

Extent

48 leaves : paper ; 174 x 126 (117 x 90) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 699, 710, 4078, 5157.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 435 (6); S I, 602; I, 499 (IX); S I, 682.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 2b-21a: Arbaʻūn al-Wadʻānīyah.

2. fol. 21b-27a: Aḥādīth Nabawīyah.

3. fol. 27a-29b: Kitāb al-Ghālib wa-al-maghlūb. Originally part of Sirr al-asrār, cf. Gotha 1869; Fahd, La divination arabe, p. 217, note 1; Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, p. 366; see also Berlin 4248-4251 and Leiden 1225 for related texts.

4. fol. 31b-44a: Arbaʻūn ḥadīth.

5. fol. 45b-48a: Takhmīs al-Munfarijah.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 13 lines per page.

Origin: [Arbaʻūn ḥadīth] Copied Rabīʻ II, 890 -- [Takhmīs al-Munfarijah] Copied Rabīʻ II, 890.

Incipit: [الاربعون الودعانية] ايها الناس کأن الموت فيها على غيرنا کتب -- [كتاب الغالب] الحمد لله مبدع ما صنع ... وبعد فهذه احرف وضعها الحکيم ارسطاليس [کذا] کما نقل عنه الحکماء يحسب بها اسماء الغالب والمغلوب -- [اربعون حديثا] الحمد لله ... اما بعد فقد روينا عن على

Discovery Information

Subject

Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800

Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

54

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

Holding location

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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0dd1b394-16df-41b7-b023-6edddd9cb829/manifest

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