Item Summary

A treatise on comfort for the loss of children composed after the death of the authorʼs son, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad, in 864 [1460].

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاني من كتاب الارتياح الاكباد بارباح فقد الاولاد.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb al-Irtiyāḥ al-akbād bi-arbāḥ faqd al-awIād.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1070H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbz60d796w
Publisher
26 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 878 [November 27, 1473]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1473
Format
Manuscript
Extent
178 leaves : paper ; 178 x 135 (130 x 95) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1916.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 244.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. The beginning is missing. The first folio is supplied by a later hand. Fawāʼid on folios 173b-176b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 178 ; quires signed beginning with "tāsiʻ ʻashar" on folio 2a ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS trimmed with some edges folded to preserve notes ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 26 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 878 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Būshī al-Qurashī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 173a).
Incipit: بينما ... بالغرور يأمن ينزل وبينه وبين الله ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من ذلك في سادس عشرين شهر جمادى الآخرة سنة ثمان وسبعين وثمان مائة وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم اللهم صلّ على عبدك ونبيك سيدنا محمد نبي الرحمة وعلى آله وصحبه والتابعين امين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap connector. Paper pastedown with block-pressed colored design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Children—Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
367

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15acdfb9-a301-43da-9582-c058d8704885/manifest