Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب الاسفار

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Asfār.

Call Number

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 680q

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ng451h555

Publisher

[Iran, 1807]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1807

Format

Manuscript

Extent

216 leaves : paper ; 277 x 180 (200 x 118) mm. bound to 280 x 185 mm.

References

Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 70

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from colophon (fol. 215a).

Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. The text is framed within a border in gold and black with an outer frame consisting of a single red line to define the margin. The titles of the sections of the text are repeated in black ink on the margin. Inscriptions on pastedown of upper cover and on fol. 1a-2a and 215b, including verses of poetry, and quotations attributed to Ibn ʻArabī ("ṣāḥib al-Futūḥāt") and to ʻAlī ("Amīr al-Muʾminīn").

Decorations: The first two pages of the text (fol. 2b-3a) have a margin filled with an arabesque with flowers, executed in gold, red, and black. The text is written in clouds in gold outlined in black. Elaborate headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 3b.

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismaʻīl ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Shīrāzī, and completed on Sunday 2 Rajab 1222 [Sept. 1807] for Mīrzā Aḥmad(?) (fol. 215a).

Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله فاعل كل محسوس ومعقول وغاية كل مطلوب ومسئول ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغنى محمد المشتهر بصدر الدين شيرازى ان السعادة ربما يظن بها انها الفوز بالدرجات الحسية

Explicit: وهو الاشارة الى صفاء جوهر الروح والشاهد هو القسم الثانى وهو الاستدلال بالاشكال على الاحوال تمت

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic philosophy—History—17th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Headpieces (layout features)—Iran—19th century

Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count

436

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/93c98729-03f3-430a-b7a7-4e03fd73ae1e/manifest

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