Item Summary

A treatise on the names of God, followed by a work on Sunni doctrine, and followed by an incomplete work on the signs of the Day of Judgment.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح اسماء الله الحسنى. ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná. ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2907Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/x920g322j
Publisher
[between 1600 and 1699?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
123 leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (145-180 x 80-115) mm bound to 202 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Obscured signature, inscription dated 1127 (fol. 1a), ʻAbd al-... ibn Jamāl al-Dīn dated 1[1]25 (fol. 2a), Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh (fol. 83a). Seal impressions (fol. 83a, 101a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2347, 2431, 2570.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 538 (no. 5); S I, 746; II, 433sq; II, 376 (no. 13).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-72b: Sharḥ asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná / lil-Ghazzālī.
2. fol. 73a-82b: al-Farāʼid al-sanīyah fī al-ʻaqāʼid al-Sunnīyah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Al-Ṣafadī.
3. fol. 83a-123b: Taḥbīr al-ʻibārāt fī taḥrīr al-amārāt / taʼlīf Najm al-Din̄ Muḥammad al-ʻĀmarī al-Dimashī al-Shahīd bi-Ibn al-Ghazzī. Incomplete at end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first text (fol. 2a).
Titles also on edges of text block. Table of contents listing titles no longer present (fol. 1a). Marginal annotations. Inscriptions (fol. 1a, 2a). Bookseller's insert. Labels: "ELS No. 2907 Majmūʻah maqṣid al-asná fī sharḥ asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná XII", "Y125" (upper pastedown), "[shīn?] 352" (upper cover), "Y125" (spine).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 59 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-4 (fol. 83a-113a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14-21 lines per page ; text 2 in two columns (fol. 73b-82b).
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other uses of red ; watermarks (grapes (fol. 1), anchor (fol. 2-72), crown-star-crescent, countermark initials with trefoil (fol. 73-123)) ; MS in fair condition with light staining and loose folios.
Origin: [al-Farāʼid al-sanīyah] According to colophon copied by Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Tākhī al-Shāfʻī in Muḥarram 1099 (fol. 82b).
Incipit: [شرح اسما الله] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المتوحد ... اما بعد فقد سلني اخ في الله يتعين في الدين اجابته في شرح معانى اسما الله الحسنى ... -- [الفرائد السنية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الفقير الصفدي احمد * الله رب العالمين احمد * واشهد الله بان اشهد * ان لا اله غيره يوحد ... وبعد فالعلم هو المظلوب ... -- [تحبير العبارات] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل ... الحمد لله خالق كل شي وبارئه ومالك كل شي وواليه ... اما بعد فيقول فقير عفو ربه القدير نجم ابن محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن احمد الغزي الشافعي عفي الله تعالى عنه وعن اباديه ...
Colophon: [شرح اسما الله] انتهى -- [الفرائد السنية] تمت بحمد الله وعونه وقدرته علي يد محمد بن حسين التاخي الشافعى مدهبا غفر الله له والديه ولمن قوافيها من بعده وكان الفراغ من كتابها في شهر محرم الذي هو من شهور سنة 1099 والحمد لله وحده -- [تحبير العبارات] والموت هادينا وفي الموت عبر لكل ذي عقل صحيح ونظر الامارت الثالثة
Binding Note
Later full type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central design and blind-tooled edging. Bound in red thread.

Discovery Information

Subject
God (Islam)—Name—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic eschatology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
128

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a0c14583-0f42-4d8f-b143-712d1c5f8f81/manifest