Item Summary

A collection of the ijāzahs of al-Damanhūrī from his professors.

Descriptive Information

Title
اللطايف النورية في المنح الدمنهورية.
Transliterated Title
al-Laṭāyif al-nūrīyah fī al-minaḥ al-Damanhūrīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 797H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxs55mq34f
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
42 leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (160 x 103) mm bound to 203 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2201.
Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 26.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon is a note of collation.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 42 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later flyleaf only: coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet letters "EV" topped with crescents; text: roman-alphabet lettering "..GR..ET") ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece with red, blue, black and gold (fol. 1b).
Origin: Probably from latter part of the XVIIIth century. Written by ʻĀmir[?] Muḥammad al-Manūfī al-Shāfiʻī al-Izmīrī.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي حمدا لمن حلانا بحسن الاتباع ... هذا ما التمس مني بعض الافاضل الماهرين ...
Colophon: انتهت اجازة شيخنا الهشتوکي و قد اعرضت عن ذکر اجازات اخرى يطول جلبها وفي هذا القدر کفاية و الله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه و سلم على يد کاتبه الفقير على محمد المنوفي الشافعي الازهري غفر الله له و لوالديه امين امين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Flap covered with paper of a different design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim
Muslim scholars—Intellectual life—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
99

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/71a16529-894c-416c-b0e5-23cca26d10d7/manifest