Item Summary

Elegant copy of a treatise on the devotional obligations of the Muslims towards the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
شفاء بتعريف حقوق المصطفى.
Transliterated Title
Shifāʼ bi-taʻrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá
Call Number
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 217H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb56452370
Publisher
[1733]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1733
Format
Manuscript
Extent
279 leaves : paper ; 198 x 118 (144 x 64) mm. bound to 200 x 125 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 634
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 369 (5/1) ; SI
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble (fol. 3a, l. 8).
Important marginal and interlinear annotations on the beginning of the text (fol. 1b-8a). Table of contents on fol. Ib-1a. Inscription "98" in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover, repeated in red on the pastedown of the same cover (corresponding to Brill's catalog. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 217).
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 295 + (1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
Description: Rubricated with use of green and red ; watermarks.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and colours on fol. 1b, with basmalah. Fol. 1b-2a frame-ruled with two gold bands and multiple lines in black and red. Gold headings and circles on these opening folios.
Origin: Copy completed on 21 Rajab 1146 [Dec. 28, 1733] by Ismaʻīl ibn Walī al-Dīn (colophon, fol. 274b).
Incipit: الحمد لله المنفرد باسمه الاسمي المختص بالملك الاعز الاحمى ... [2أ] ... اما بعد اشرق الله قلبي وقلبك بانوار اليقين.
Explicit: ولا يردّ دعوة القاصدين ولا يصلح عمل المفسدين وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على نبينه محمد خاتم النبيين وسلّم تسليماً كثيراً كمل الديوان المبارك.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Gold-tooled and painted, with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis outlined in gold with radiating flecks, and an outer border consisting of fillets and a guilloche. Yellow paper pastedowns. Traces of a now wanting fore-edge flap. Upper cover badly damaged. Spine broken.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Devotional literature—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Devotional literature
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
562

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ba184f0-2079-4967-a6c1-2aacffd47202/manifest