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An eschatological treatise on the signs of the last day entitled Risālah fī ʻalāmāt al-sāʻah, being a section of the treatise on cosmography, Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib.
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- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457
- ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر، -1457
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1001H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An eschatological treatise on the signs of the last day entitled Risālah fī ʻalāmāt al-sāʻah, being a section of the treatise on cosmography, Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة في علامات الساعة.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālah fī ʻalāmāt al-sāʻah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1001H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdv140575m
- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 28 leaves : paper ; 230 x 162 (175 x 110) mm bound to 229 x 160 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 768.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 132/3.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6046.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- On the two folios after the colophon is a short medical essay entitled FaṣI fī al-ṭabāʼiʻ.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 28 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "VG") ; MS in good condition, worm-eaten.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الحمد لله رب العالمين ... روي عن عبد الله ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما قال بعث النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وامر ان يكاتب ملوك الكفار ...
- Colophon: تم کتاب خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب جمع الامام العالم العلامة الاديب سراج الدين بن حفص بن عمر بن محمد بن عمران بن الفوارس بن الوردي القرشي البکري تغمده الله برحمته واسکنه فسيح جنته ومحل رضوانه امين بجاه سيد المرسلين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. تم
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather and painted paper. Blue paper pastedowns. Spine badly damaged.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 65
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bf8af6cc-d394-4172-90a1-e4559eb4b7fc/manifest