Item Summary

Treatise on religious matters, completed on 8(?) Shawwāl 1271 [June 18, 1855] (see end of text, fol. 127a). The text is followed on fol. 127b-128b by a short text in Persian concerning Adam, written in pencil.

Descriptive Information

Title
علم اليقين
Transliterated Title
ʻIlm al-yaqīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1125
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qb98mj086
Publisher
[1866]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1866
Format
Manuscript
Extent
128 leaves : paper ; 215 x 170 (152 x 110) mm. bound to 215 x 175 mm.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 341
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of text (fol. 2a, l. 3).
Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Wove paper with impression of an embossed blind stamp in Cyrillic and Roman script, reading: "Fabriki Sergieva [in cyrill.] no. 6 [in Rom.]" ; glossy. Ink spreading and water damage on a few leaves, with loss of text (fol. 2a, 44b-45a).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 23 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1283 [August 5, 1866] by Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ransajānī(?) al-... al-Yazdī al-aṣl (fol. 127a, followed by verses of poetry).
Incipit : الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد واله الطيبين ... يقول العبد الاثيم كريم بن ابراهيم ان هذه درة يتيمة وجوهرة عظيمة لم ير عين الدهر مثلها
Explicit: وما لنا ان لا نتوكل على الله وقد هدانا سبلنا وعلى الله فليتوكل المتوكلون ولما وصل الكلام الى قد طال واخذنا الكلال ولنا اهم منه اشغال راينا ذلك فى عصر يوم الثلثا ثانى(؟) شوال من شهور سنه احدى وسبعين بعد الماتين والالف حامدا مصليا مستغفرا
Incipit Text 2 (fol. 127b): بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين قل لله احد لا اله الله چه ادم را در عالم خلق كرديم جمال خويش در صحرا نهاديم تن ادم شريف است
Binding Note
Limp brown leather binding with outer border consisting of fillets and a guilloche.

Discovery Information

Subject
Adam (Biblical figure)—Islamic interpretations
Shaykhī—Doctrines
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
133

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c268be13-44be-438b-ab38-d2bf13011620/manifest