Item Summary

Charts on various types of religious knowledge; according to Āghā Buzurg and the published text, the author is Muḥammad al-Ikhbārī, but this ms. gives the author as Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 52b).

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الخاقان.
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-khāqān.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1179q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dchh63t6886
Publisher
[1881]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1881
Format
Manuscript
Extent
53 leaves : paper, ill. ; 341 x 207 mm. bound to 342 x 217 mm.
References
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VIII, 267
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2b.
Physical description: Written in naskh in black on machine-made paper. Table of contents on fol. 2b-3a written ruled red lines and framed in red. Charts generally in red and black, with occasional use of blue or yellow. Some leaves are gold-sprinkled. In excellent condition.
Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ I 1298 H [February 1881] by Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAlī Naqī (fol. 52b).
Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد فهذه هدية النملة الى سليمان الموسومة بتحفة الخاقان مرتبة العنوان الملقبة بدواير العلوم وجداول الرقوم وهذا فهرست
Binding Note
Limp orange-brown leather with blind-tooled and stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Miscellanea
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Trivia and miscellanea

Physical Characteristics

File Count
110

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a851bb2f-c0cb-4a47-aea9-2c9fe1762257/manifest