Item Summary

A commentary on the work of Shams al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Ghayṭī, 981 [1573] on the importance and significance of the birth of the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ارشاد الحايرين بشرح بهجة السامعين والناظرين بمولد سيد الاولين والآخرين / تأليف علي بن عبد القادر النبتيتي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Irshād al-ḥāyirīn bi-sharḥ Bahjat al-sāmiʻīn wa-al-nāẓirīn bi-mawlid Sayyid al-Awwalīn wa-al-Ākhirīn / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Nabtītī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 236H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc02871604r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1695
Extent
124 leaves : paper ; 212 x 153 (155 x 97) mm bound to 207 x 161 mm.
Provenance
Title page carries several ownership signatures, some obliterated, including: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf, and Aḥmad al-Arwādī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 654.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 264/5.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 264/5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 124 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-13 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crown, star with a crescent on top) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 15 Jumādá I 1106 (fol. 124a).
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد الله الذي صور خلق الانسان
Colophon: وقد تم نسخها بحمد الله وعونه يوم السبت المبارك خامس عشر شهر جمادى الاولى ست شهور سنة ستة وماية والف الهلالية من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on covers. Stamped florets and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Red marbled pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
259

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e0fdecb7-d77a-4258-a250-8fdb9fbb9d91/manifest