Item Summary

A well-known biography of members of the Naqshabandī order consisting of a maqālah, three maqṣid, and a khātimah. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رشحات عين الحياه].
Transliterated Title
[Rashaḥāt-i ʻayn al-ḥayāt].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 460L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcff365j759
Publisher
Rajab 1092 [1681]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1681
Format
Manuscript
Extent
262 leaves : paper ; 238 x 135 (180 x 95) mm bound to 244 x 151 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 460
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 262 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in poor condition, worm-eaten, many folios mended with some loss of text.
Origin: According to spine label copied Rajab 1092.
Beginning: ... الموحدين خواجه ناصر الحق والحقيقه والدنيا والدين عبيد الله رضى الله ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Covers decorated with sprinkled and smeared ink. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Naqshabandīyah—Biography—Early works to 1800
Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
536

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/778650c9-fc03-4db5-901d-1d4a23951180/manifest