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[الانسان الكامل في معرفة الاواخر والاوائل]
[al-Insān al-kāmil fī maʻrifat al-awākhir wa-al-awāʼil].
1607
A Sufi treatise on the concept of the "perfect man" through the knowledge of God.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [1607]
- People
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- Author
- Jīlī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm, 1365 or 1366-
- جيلي، عبد الكريم بن ابراهيم، 1365 or 1366- .
- Related Name
- جيزي، احمد بن ناصر، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1040H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A Sufi treatise on the concept of the "perfect man" through the knowledge of God.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [الانسان الكامل في معرفة الاواخر والاوائل]
- Transliterated Title
- [al-Insān al-kāmil fī maʻrifat al-awākhir wa-al-awāʼil].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1040H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdv1405833
- Publisher
- [1607]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1607
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- leaves 9-194 : paper ; 204 x 148 (160 x 98) mm bound to 205 x 150 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1579.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by the cataloger.
- Incomplete: copy missing first 8 fol., and the foliation starts with fol. 9.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 9-194 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Written in a clear rounded medium small script in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper.
- Origin: Copied by Aḥmad ibn Nāṣir al-Ḥijāzī al-Jīzī under the patronage of Shaykh Ḥijāzī al-Jīzī al-Khalwatī al-Muḥammadī, and completed in the first 10 days of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1016 (1607) -- colophon (fol. 193a).
- Incipit (as extant): الاشاره اخذت اقطع في جو الفلك جايزا عن الملك والملك وان ادور على هذا الامر المعجب
- Explicit: ولا تكون الا لواحد وارجو ان اكون انا ذلك الرجل لانه كان البدء فى الوجود فلا بد ان يكون له الختام عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لابنى بعده محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue paper with silver print pattern. Blind-stamped mandorla of brown leather pasted in the center of upper and lower covers. A small blind stamped medallion of brown leather pasted on the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. Insect damage to the spine, the ms is disbound and loose inside the covers.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 386
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0611fec7-15f4-4259-9680-c79f934e7025/manifest