Item Summary

A collection containing two copies of al-Idkāwī's commentary on al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt, a poem on the names of Allāh, magical works, and religious verse.

Descriptive Information

Title
الغايات علي الفوائد المهمات ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Ghāyāt ʻalá al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 150L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj3860m03n
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
90 leaves : paper ; 235 x 160 (190 x 125) mm bound to 234 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2077.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3753ˡ.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [i]b-11a: al-Ghāyāt ʻalá al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt. A commentary by Muḥammad Sharābī al-Idkāwī on al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt fī maṭāliʻ al-awqāt, the authorʼs poem on the calendar.
2. fol. 11a-11b: [Two fawāʼid].
3. fol. 12b-26a: al-Ghāyāt ʻalá al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt. A commentary by Muḥammad Sharābī al-Idkāwī on al-Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt fī maṭāliʻ al-awqāt, the authorʼs poem on the calendar.
4. fol. 26a-30b: al-Manẓūmah al-Dimyāṭīyah. A poem on the 99 names of God by Nūr al-Dīn al-Dimyāṭī.
5. fol. 31a-36b: [Fawāʼid]. "Fāʼidah man qarʼ duʻā al-saʻādah fī akhar al-sanah aḥdá wa-ʻishrīn marrah ..." and "Fāʼidah ṣalāh al-ḥājah warada fī al-khabar ʻan sayyid al-bashar ...". Contains alphamagic square, and four archangel magic square.
6. fol. 36b-54a: Kitāb Ṭibb al-sabʻah. Followed by short note.
7. fol. 54b-70a: Risālah fī maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-insān wa-al-burūj wa-al-manāzil wa-al-sāʻāt wa-iḥḍār al-rūhānīyāt, a treatise on determining the horoscopes of men, the signs of the zodiac, the homes and hours of the stars, and how to summon the spirits.
8. fol. 70b-90a: [Selections of poetry]. A collection of poems on religious and moral subjects arranged alphabetically.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from preface of first work (fol. [i]b).
Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 90 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "NR" and "AM" or "MA") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XIXth century. Apparently written in a single hand.
Incipit: [الغايات علي الفوائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل في السما بروجا ... وبعد فاني نظمت النظومة المسماة بالفوائد المهمات في مطالع الاوقات ... -- [المنظومة الدمياطية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هذا نظم اسماء الله الحسني للشيخ الدمياطي نفعنا الله به بدات بسم الله والحمد اولا -- [كتاب طب السبعة] وهذا كتاب طب السبعة ايام للمريض يبدا باذن الله -- [رسالة في معرفة طالع الانسان] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد لمن خلق الانسان في احسن تقويم ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في معرفة طالع الانسان والبروج والمنازل والساعات واحضار الروحانيات -- [Selections of poetry] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي ورجاء روي عن الامام علي بن ابى طالب كرم الله وجهه قال من اراد ان يتناول بالقران العظيم
Colophon: [الغايات علي الفوائد 1] تم بعون اللهتعالى تم -- [المنظومة الدمياطية] تمت المنظومة الدمياطية نظم الشيخ الدمياطي -- [كتاب طب السبعة] تمت بحمد الله وعونه -- [رسالة في معرفة طالع الانسان] تمت وحمد لله وعونه والحمد لله رب العالمين تم -- [Selections of poetry] تمت بحمد الله تعالي وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله علي من لابني بعده وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Violet paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic poetry
Astrology, Arab
Calendar
God (Islam)—Name—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Idkāwī, Muḥammad—Fawāʼid al-muhimmāt fī maṭāliʻ al-awqāt
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/14faca9a-9932-43b6-a8c0-e780a17aa154/manifest