Item Summary

A collection in 160 chapters containing 1530 prayers and collects for different occasions, all said to have been originally made by the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجامع البهي لدعوات النبي.
Transliterated Title
al-Jāmiʻ al-bahī li-daʻawāt al-Nabī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1100H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsb397p431
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
249 leaves : paper ; 220 x 165 (165 x 107) mm bound to 222 x 175 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1945.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 3b).
Marginal notes. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), list of contents (not matching current volume), and death notice dated 1120 (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 249 + i ; quires signed: 1-25 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and green.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents "3 lune"; stars) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed by ʻAlī ʻAbd Allāh al-Damhūjī[?] (fol. 248b). Probably from early XlXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله وسلام علي عباده الذين اسطفي ... اما بعد حمدا لله تعالى والصلاة علي نبيه المسطفي واله فقد التمس مني الشيخ الامام الاخ في الله ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة على يد کاتبها العبد الفقير الحقير الذليل المعترف بالذنب والتقصير يوم الاحد المبارك علي عبد الله الدمهوحي
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blind-tooling on spine and flap fore-edge. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
511

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/01a7b54e-2d2d-4cdb-b40b-956d3cec8f3d/manifest