Item Summary

A commentary on al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham.

Descriptive Information

Title
فيض الارحم وفتح الاکرم على الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم.
Transliterated Title
Fayḍ al-arḥam wa-fatḥ al-akram ʻalá al-Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1115H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2r36v925k
Publisher
19 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1166 [March 24, 1753?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1753
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 220 x 143 (155 x 85) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1966.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 56.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes and glosses. The beginning in Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 56 differs from the beginning of the present copy. Inscription (fol. [ii]b). Lengthy note (fol. 207a-208a) and inscriptions (fol. 208b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 209 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering, crown?; later endpaper only: face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 19 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1166 (fol. 206a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اعد للقانتين والمسبّحين ... بعد فلما كان الحزب الاعظم والورد الفخم المنسوب على الرسول الاكرم ...
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من هذه النسخة الشريفة في ليلة الجمعة تسعة عشرة من شهر جمادى الاولى سنة ستة وستين ومائة والف الحمد لله اولا واخرًا على توفيق الاتمام وعلى اشرف خلقه ظاهرًا وباطنا افضل الصلاة والسلام
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and dark green embossed paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qārī al-Harawī, ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad -1605 or 1606—Ḥizb al-aʻẓam wa-al-wird al-afkham
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Embossed papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
436

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c6262e8f-be9a-46bf-8072-1099c70d8989/manifest