Item Summary

A treatise discussing the length of life and whether it exceeds or falls short of its pre-ordained length.

Descriptive Information

Title
افادة الخبر بنصه في زيادة العمر ونقصه / لحافظ جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السيوطي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Ifādat al-khabar bi-naṣṣihi fī ziyādat al-ʻumr wa-naqṣih / li-ḥāfiẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥman al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 942H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3n204963g
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
5 leaves : paper ; 204 x 150 (160 x 105) mm bound to 203 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature written in gold ink (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1523.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 369/70.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 49.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2487.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 743.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Two marginal glosses. Notes on title page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 26 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله ... فصل في ذکر فتوى من فتاوي الوالد
Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Longevity—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Theological anthropology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9f6820b4-4e17-472c-8dab-5a9eb84ee7a4/manifest