Item Summary

Biographical information on famous theologians and mystics.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الأجوبة المرضية عن ايمة الفقهاء والصوفية / تأليف عبد الوهاب الشعرانى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ajwibah al-marḍīyah ʻan aʼimmat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-Ṣūfīyah / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 584Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326m4344
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
181 leaves : paper ; 228 x 162 (159 x 95) mm.
Provenance
Tughrá of Maḥmūd al-Sayyid al-Barzanjī (fol. 1a). Seal impression of Maḥmūd al-Barzanjī; signature of ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī (fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2821.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 584".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 181 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-18 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet initials "CS"? and "LA"; coat-of-arms with a sword) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to the colophon copied by Abū Bakr ibn Muṣ[damaged] al-Kurdī al-ʻImādī al-Ḥalabī (fol. 182a).
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 444 (no. 28); S II, 466.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ذي الفضل والجود الذي اصطفى من عباده ... وبعد فهذا كتاب نفيس ضمنته جملة صالحة من العلوم اللدنيه والاحوال اسنيه والاخلاق الزكية والاحوبة المرضية ...
Colophon (damaged): وكان الفراغ من كتابته بقلم فقيه ... ربه ابي بكر بن الحاج مص... الكردي العمادي ثم الحلبي ...
Binding Note
Remnant of brown leather binding along the spine.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
186

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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