Item Summary

A dictionary of philosophical and Sufi terms.

Descriptive Information

Title
تعريفات.
Transliterated Title
Taʻrīfāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 489H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctb09jh72j
Publisher
[1559]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1559
Format
Manuscript
Extent
159 leaves : paper ; 156 x 108 (115 x 58) mm. bound to 158 x 120 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 155b). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1578.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (280), SII (305).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
On title page (fol. 2a) the work wrongly attributed to Ibn Kemal. Short inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Fol. 154b-156a have a short text entitled "Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥudūd", also providing definitions, copied by the same scribe, Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh, and dated the last 10 days of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 971 (1563).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 159 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in a single line of red ink.
Description: Written in small informal taʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; substantial water damage through the entire ms, with a lot of ink duplication and some loss of text.
Origin: Copied by Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 967 (1559) -- colophon (fol. 153a).
Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فهذه تعريفات جمعتها واصطلاحات اخذتها من كتب القوم ورتبتها على حروف الهجآء من الالف والبآء الي اليآء
Explicit: اليونسية وهو يونس بن عبد الرحمن قال الله تعالى على العرش تحمله الملائكة تم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Evidence of envelope flap which is now missing and only the fore edge flap remains. Blind-stamped mandorla in the centre of upper and lower covers. Binding damaged and repaired in different leather on spine, and around edges of covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism—Dictionaries—Arabic—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Dictionaries—Arabic—Early works to 1800
Islam—Terminology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Dictionaries
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
324

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/36aaaeae-dd16-4a10-ae76-2ecc20c2193e/manifest