Item Summary

A treatise on the characteristics of, and the duties to be observed on Friday, based on traditions.

Descriptive Information

Title
اللمعة في خصوصيات يوم الجمعة / للعلامة جلال الدين السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
al-Lumʻah fī khuṣūṣīyāt yawm al-Jumʻah / lil-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 943H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcc534g1487
Publisher
5 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 996 [February 3, 1588?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1588
Format
Manuscript
Extent
21 leaves : paper ; 160 x 110 (110 x 70) mm bound to 159 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1854.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 336.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later) + 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 5 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 996 (fol. 21b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين الحمد لله الذي خص هذه الامة المحمدية ... وبعد فقد ذکر الاستاذ المغنن شمس الدين بن القيم في كتاب الهدي ليوم الجمعة ...
Colophon: انتهت کتابته نهارالجمعة اخر شهر ربيع الاول [من] شهور سنة ست وتسعين وتسعمائة بحمد الله وحسن توفيقه تم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and green and red marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Jumʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
52

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8cca8aeb-3825-42cd-b422-0de0b2f0fd30/manifest