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
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1775
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.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
270

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68bf1d71-4de0-41fd-8b6d-a83badd8ac44/manifest