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Item Summary
Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Shifāʼ fī taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2231Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vt150m85n
- Publisher
- Jumādá I, 1189 [June/July 1775]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1775
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 265 leaves : paper ; 200 x 125 (138 x 73) mm bound to 203 x 130 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 4501.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from preface (fol. 2a).
- A few marginal notes. Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 2231".
- Collation: Paper ; fol. iii (f. i-ii later paper) + 265 + iii (fol. ii-iii later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fleur-de-lis?) ; MS in very good condition.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, red, blue, orange and white and double-frame of gold (fol. [i]b).
- Origin: According to the colophon copied Jumādá I, 1189 by Muḥammad al-Arḍī Rūmī Khazīnah Dārzan (fol. 265a)
- Brockelmann, GAL, I, 455 (no. 1); S I, 630.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الحريم الحمد لله المنفدر باسمه الاسمى المختص ... اما بعد اشرق الله قلبى وقلبك بانوار اليقين ولطف لى ولك ...
- Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب المستطاب عن يد احقر عباد الله الملك الوهاب كتبه محمد الارض روحى المعروف بخزنية دارزن صينت عن الافات والهموم فى صحوة كبرى من شهر جما زيلى اول من سنه تسع وثمانين ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف وصلى الله على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين
- Binding Note
- Modern? type III (without flap) binding in marbled and gold-sprinkled paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 270
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68bf1d71-4de0-41fd-8b6d-a83badd8ac44/manifest





























