Item Summary

A collection of traditions on self-protection and abstinence from sin through solitude.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاعتصام بالعزلة / تأليف ابي سليمن حمد بن محمد بن ابرهيم الخطابي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Iʻtiṣām bi-al-ʻuzlah / taʼlīf Abī Sulaymān Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khaṭṭābī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 745H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpr76ff44p
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
47 leaves : paper ; 205 x 149 (150 x 104) mm bound to 204 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1421.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 117.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-40b: Kitāb al-Iʻtiṣām bi-al-ʻuzlah / taʼlīf Abī Sulaymān Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khaṭṭābī.
2. fol. 41a-46b: [Treatise on several passages of the Qurʼan] / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān al-Qārī.
3. fol. 47a-47b: Ṭabaqāt al-nās wa-wafātuhum. 27 verses of poetry dealing with some of the leading persons with their date of birth and death.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Short additions on folios 41-47.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 47 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth contury. MS is rare.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين اخبرني بکتاب الاعتصام بالعزلة تأليف الشيخ الامام الحافظ ابي سليمن حمد بن محمد بن ابرهيم الحطابى ...
Colophon: تم کتاب العزلة والحمد لله حمدًا کثيرًا دايما لا نهاية له وصلواته على رسوله محمد ابن عبدالله صلى الله عليه وسلم اخره
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed leaf design. Spine edge damaged.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Solitude—Religious aspects—Islam
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Biography—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
102

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ee96e5cc-72e4-4451-8227-a98c9435bcb6/manifest