Item Summary

A treatise on the signs and prognostics of the day of judgment.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاشاعة لاشراط الساعة / تأليف محمد بن الرسول الشهير بابن السيد العلوي ثم الحسيني الموسومي الشهروزي البرزنجي المدني المعروف شيخ‌زادة.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ishāʻah li-ashrāṭ al-sāʻah / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn al-Rasūl al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Sayyid al-ʻAlawī thumma al-Ḥusaynī al-Mawsūmī al-Shahrūzī al-Barzanjī al-Madanī al-maʻrūf Shaykhʹzādah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1003H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2514nz096
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
102 leaves : paper ; 214 x 147 (150 x 85) mm bound to 214 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 777.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Explicit mentions that the text was completed 21 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1076 in al-Madīnah.
Collation: Paper ; ii + 102 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet lettering "FF. Pal ..."; crown; cartouche with roman-alphabet letters "PSL"; grapes) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم احمد من اوضح منهاج الحق ونصب عليه في كل شيئ دليلا ... اما بعد فقد قال تعالى اقترب للناس حسابهم وهم في غفلة معرضون وقال تعالى وما يدريك لعل الساعة قريب ...
Ending: ... جعلها الله ذريعة ليوم المعاد يجاه سيد العباد امين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Endband. Blue flyleaf at beginning. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
218

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9857b121-daae-489a-b22d-f53cfe9f7a65/manifest