Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
جوهرة التوحيد ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Jawharat al-tawḥīd ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 999H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx346dg74k
Publisher
al-Qayṣarīyah 1247 [1831 or 1832]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1831
Format
Manuscript
Extent
80 leaves : paper ; 212 x 135 (150 x 70) mm bound to 211 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Nūrī dated 1297 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1565, 1135.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 264.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 13; IV, p. 202.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2044/5.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 693.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-4b: Jawharat al-tawḥīd / lil-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī. A doctrinal poem on the unity of God and the principal doctrines of Islam that follow there-from.
2. fol. 5a-78a: Asās al-iqtibās / li-Ikhtiyār ibn Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī. A collection of Koranic verses, traditions, short sayings, proverbs and some selections from poetry and prose together with some instructions as to the bibliography for and technique of various lines of knowledge as well as other sources for the improvement of the style of writers and speakers.
3. fol. 78b-80b: [Poetry] / Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣāliḥī al-Hilālī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Title page of Asās al-iqtibās includes entry from Kashf al-ẓunūn and lines of poetry (fol. 5a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 80 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page in one or two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (eagle?) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Jawharat al-tawḥīd has an elaborate illuminated headpiece of gold, orange, blue, red, black and green. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a). Asās al-iqtibās has an elaborate headpiece in the same colors. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 5b-6a).
Origin: According to colophon for the volume copy completed 1247 in al-Qayṣarīyah by Muḥammad al-Rushdī (fol. 80b).
Incipit: [جوهرة التوحيد] الحمد لله على صلاته * ثم سلام الله مع صلاته ... وبعد فالعلم باصل الدين محتم يحتاج للتبيين -- [اساس الاقتباس] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم احمد اللهم والمحامد راجعة اليك ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغنى اختيار بن غياث الدين الحسينى ان علم البيان والانشاء نعم العون على استحصال المطالب العلية ...
Colophon: [جوهرة التوحيد] الحمد لله على الاتمام والصلوة والسلام على سيد الانام. تمت بعون الله الملك الوهاب -- [اساس الاقتباس] تاريخ الاحتتام فقد تممته بسلخ رجب وذلك امر عجب. شعر. تم بالخير جامع نافع * فارتغب يافتى بتعليمه * حين تممته بعون الله * نلت تاريخه بتتميمه 897. والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده-- [الكتاب] قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الكتاب المستطاب في شهر جمادى الاولى عن يد محمد الرشدى المشهر بمدينة القيصرية وهو داخل في سور العتيق المشهور بحضر باشى زاد الله رشده وللمؤمنين والمومنات سنة 1247
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped and -tooled triangular design and decorative edging on covers. Matching gold-tooled edging on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
175

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/288ba714-51a3-4148-8c1a-9a217b07f423/manifest