Descriptive Information

Title

الاذكار / للشيخ محيي الدين النووي

Transliterated Title

al-Adhkār / lil-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 283Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rv042w69n

Publisher

[1443]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1443

Format

Manuscript

Extent

182 leaves : paper ; 215 x 160 (165 x 120) mm. bound to 215 x 170 mm.

Provenance

Autograph ijāzah from Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir (or: al-Qādirī?) al-Shāfiʻī for Muḥyī al-Dīn Zakaryā al-Anṣārī on fol. 180a. Reading statement dated Muḥarram 1154 on fol. 1a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one dated Aleppo, 22 M 1273, and one mentioning al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Karīm al-...?, al-Ḥājj Ṣāliḥ Efendi and al-Ḥājj [Muḥammad] Naʻān, with mention of price. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1722

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from inscription on fol. 2a.

Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a price, two lines of poetry in praise of the text, and ownership statements. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1a-b.

Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a).

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130".

Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series).

Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 [re-written] Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 [March 14, 1443], from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār").

Incipit: بسم ... اللهم صل على محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما ابدا الحمد لله الواحد القهار العزيز الغفار مقدر الاقدار مصرف الامور ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم العزيز الحكيم فاذكروني اذكركم

Explicit: قال ليس لاهل الشام حديث اشرف

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—History—13th century—Sources

Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

189

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b155c5db-821d-418b-908a-09e7e3dafc9b/manifest

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