Item Summary

A homiletical work in sixty chapters based on the Qurʼan and the traditions. Followed by four works on the recensions of the Qurʼan by early scholars: ʻĀṣim, Abū Bakr, Ḥafṣ, Abū ʻAmr, Abū Saʻīd (known as Warsh), and Qālūn.

Descriptive Information

Title
حدائق الحقائق.
Transliterated Title
Ḥadāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1064H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg158bv971
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1626
Extent
187 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (150-155 x 90) mm bound to 204 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1904.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 20.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1925.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [i]a-1a: [Inscriptions]
2. fol. 1b-99a: Ḥadāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq.
3. fol. 99b: Hādhā Sharḥ duʻāʼ ṣalawāt.
4. fol. 100b-128a: [On the qirāʼāt of ʻĀṣim, Abū Bakr, and Ḥafṣ]
5. fol. 128b bis-161a: Kitāb fīhi mufradāt Abī ʻAmr fī Kitāb Allāh al-ʻAzīz.
6. fol. 161b-181a: [On the qirāʼāt of Abū Saʻīd, known as Warsh]
7. fol. 181b-186a: Hādhā Riwāyat Qālūn.
8. fol. 186a-187a: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (fol. 1b).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 187 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor, countermark with roman-letter initials) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 27 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1035 in Qalʻa Astūrghūn (fol. 99a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام علي خير خلقه محمد ... هذا مختصر جمعته من کتاب الله وسنة رسوله ...
Colophon: تمت الکتاب بعون الله وحسن توفيقه يوم الاثنين في سبع وعشرين من شهور شهر ربيع الاخر في قلعة استورغون سنة خمس وثلاثين والف تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
390

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/5f86fe39-4768-47fc-a67a-e2e112c49b2a/manifest