Item Summary

A metrical treatise on the articles of faith.

Descriptive Information

Title
اضاءة الدجنة بعقايد اهل السنة / للشيخ شهاب الدين احمد المقرى المغربى الاشعرى.
Transliterated Title
Iḍāʼat al-dujunnah bi-ʻaqāyid ahl al-sunnah / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Maqqarī al-Maghribī al-Ashʻarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 320L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8w32rj945
Publisher
Jumādá al-Awwal 1065 [April 1655]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1655
Format
Manuscript
Extent
14 leaves : paper ; 214 x 150 (150 x 100-105) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2004.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions (fol. 1a-1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed end of Jumādá al-Awwal 1065 by Maḥmūd al-Sālimī al-Rājī (fol. 14b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يقول احمد الفقير المقرى * المغربى المالكى الاشعري * الحمد لله الذى توحيده * اجل ما اعتنى به عبيده
Colophon: تمت العقيدة المباركة من تسخة نسخت من نسخة عليها حط المولف رحمه الله تعالى على يد محمود السالمى الراجى دعاء الاخوان بظهر الغيب ختم الله له ولهم بالخير امين اخر جماد الاول عام 1065
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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