Item Summary

Collection of two treatises, one on propaedeutics, the other on the legal character of killing dogs. Very clear copy.

Descriptive Information

Title
غاية الكمال في افضل الاعمال / تأليف الشيخ علي المتقي. رسالة في الكلاب / لساچاقلي زاده محمد المرعشي
Transliterated Title
Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī afḍal al-aʻmāl / taʼlīf al-Shaykh ʻAlī al-Muttaqī. Risālah fī al-kilāb / li-SāchāqlīʹZādah Muḥammad al-Marʻashī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1107Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vx021h72c
Publisher
[1748]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1748
Extent
i, 13, i leaves: paper ; 210 x 153 (152 x 89) mm. bound to 210 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 28, 4771
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 519/14
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-8b: Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī bayān afḍal al-aʻmāl / ʻAlī al-Muttaqī.
2. fol. 9a: [Short inscription].
3. fol. 9b-10b: [Blank].
4. fol. 11b-13b: Risālat qatl al-kilāb / Muḥammad SājaqlīʹZādah. [The Risālah proper ends on fol. 11b; Fāʼidah on fol. 12a-13b].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 1a.
13 lines per page. European glazed paper with watermark. Text 1 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines. Text 2 written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. A few marginal notes on text 2. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 122". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1362/2 Ḥāʼ".
Text 1 copied by Nuʻmān Ibn Khalīl in 1161 (colophon, fol. 8b). Text 2 copied in 1162 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 12b).
Binding Note
Marbled paper on brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
17

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/677e1604-c227-485d-984e-9560d1d806c0/manifest