Descriptive Information

Title

حياة النفس في حضرة القدس

Transliterated Title

Ḥayāt al-nafs fī ḥaḍrat al-quds.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1897Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xp65b

Publisher

[1837]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1837

Format

Manuscript

Extent

31 leaves: paper ; 191 x 115 (130 x 68) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 2612

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 485/10

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from preamble of text (first unumbered fol. b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.

Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European cream paper, with watermark; glossy; frame-ruled. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Last fol. (fol. 30 in the modern foliation, is a added blank leaf). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn (or Ḥasan) Ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar ...?, on 5 Ṣafar 1253 [May 11, 1837] (fol. 29b).

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاهرين اما بعد فيقول العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائى انه قد التمس منى بعض الاخوان الذين يجب طاعتهم ان اكتب لهم رسالة فى بعض ما يجب على المكلفين من معرفت اصول الدين اعنى التوحيد والعدل والنبوة والامامة والمعاد وما يلحق بها بالدليل

Explicit: والرضاء فى كل حال بقدره وقضائه فانه ولى كل خير وصلى الله على محمد واله الطاهرين

Discovery Information

Subject

Shaykhī—Doctrines

Shaykhī—Texts

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

34

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5bc01326-ff75-49fa-8318-441f2deba2e7/manifest

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