Item Summary

A collection of poems, traditions and sayings on Sufi love.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسآئل الاحبه بدلآئل العشق والمحبة.
Transliterated Title
Rasāʼil al-aḥibbah bi-dalāʼil al-ʻishq wa-al-maḥabbah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 27L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc70795m63z
Publisher
1203 [1788 or 1789]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1788
Format
Manuscript
Extent
16 leaves : paper ; 224 x 165 (167 x 115) mm bound to 224 x 172 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad al-ʻĀlam (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1603.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Various short inscriptions on title page including ownership signature, count of folios, and lines of verse (fol. 1a). Date also given in the form of a chronogram (fol. 16a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 16 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1203 (fol. 16a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بسابق حبه ... وبعد فهذه عبارات منيفة واشارات لطيفة لها من رياض المحبة اقتطاف ازهار
Colophon: والا فما الا عدا کفوا لمثها ويکفيك ان تمت بتاريخ راغب. سنة 1203 والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in green leather and red paper. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufi literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
chronograms
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

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/64a4f92a-d3f7-49d4-a63f-4de5ae4eb451/manifest