Item Summary

An instructional book for Sufi novices explaining the rules of their commitments and conduct as murīds.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب البحر المورود في المواثيق والعهود / للعارف بربه الشيخ عبد الوهاب الشعراني ... .
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd / lil-ʻārif bi-rabbihi al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1033H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj098zp76v
Publisher
[1610]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1610
Extent
i, 116 leaves : paper ; 218 x 140 (140 x 80) mm. bound to 218 x 144 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements: Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Sayyid Saʻīd, al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥāl al-Ḥalabī, dated '62, Tāḥā al-Ḥalabī, dated 1243 (fol. ia).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1588.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (443), SII (465).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. ia.
A couple of lines of poetry following the colophon on fol. 116b in the same hand as the main text. Several short inscriptions on fol. ia in a later hand.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Written in an informal medium small script in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Glazed European paper.
Origin: Copy completed on the 19th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1018 (1610) -- colophon (fol. 116b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ عبد الوهاب ابن احمد ابن علي ابن احمد ابن محمد بن موسى بن ابي عبد الله سلطان تلمسان ... وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من مشايخنا
Explicit: ولاخطر علي قلب بشر فعل وليكن هذا آخر العهود والمواثيق والحمد لله تعالى قال المولف رحمة الله تعالى عليه وكان الفراغ من تأليف سنة خمس واربعين وتسعماية
Binding Note
Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with a pattern painted in purple and green over pasteboard.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
242

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/10d48bc4-e9d8-4d36-855c-17a35885c4c7/manifest