Item Summary

A treatise on the creation of man and the angels, on death and the next world.

Descriptive Information

Title
[دقائق الاخبار].
Transliterated Title
[Daqāʼiq al-akhbār].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1139H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc794088877
Publisher
1255 [1839 or 1840]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1839
Format
Manuscript
Extent
46 leaves : paper ; 192 x 127 (150 x 80) mm bound to 192 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 776.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger
Inscriptions on folios 1a and 46a. The title "Kitāb Mishkāt al-anwār" is given on folio 1a, and in the colophon the title is given as "Ḥadīth al-adhkār"; however, the text matches that of Daqāʼiq akhbār.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; catchwords ; watermarks (unidentified mark with roman-alphabet initial "AC" or "VG") ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1255 by Sulaymān ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 45b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين الذى خلق آدم من الماء والطين وشرفه على الملائكة اجمعين ...
Colophon: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب المسمى بحديث الاذكار على يد عبد ضعيف مذنب محتاج الى رحمة ربه الغفور سليمان بن حسين غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين سنة 1255
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed design. Violet paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
96

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e0b11033-5672-4a96-b510-59d30ae7b64b/manifest