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كتاب البحر المورود في المواثيق والعهود / تأليف العارف بالله تعالى فريد دهره ووحيد عصره سيدي عبد الوهاب الشعراني ... .
Kitāb al-Baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd / taʼlīf al-ʻārif billāh taʻālá farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi sayyidī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī ... .
1621
An instructional book for Sufi novices explaining the rules of their commitment and conduct as murīds.
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- Publisher
- [1621]
- People
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- Author
- Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
- شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن احمد، approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1034H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An instructional book for Sufi novices explaining the rules of their commitment and conduct as murīds.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب البحر المورود في المواثيق والعهود / تأليف العارف بالله تعالى فريد دهره ووحيد عصره سيدي عبد الوهاب الشعراني ... .
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd / taʼlīf al-ʻārif billāh taʻālá farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi sayyidī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī ... .
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1034H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckp78gt99p
- Publisher
- [1621]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1621
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 143 leaves : paper ; 200 x 150 (150 x 95) mm. bound to 200 x 154 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement, accompanied by a stamp and dated 1203 (1788-89), in the name of Abu al-Fayḍ Muḥammad al-Murtaḍá al-Ḥusaynī on fol. 8a.
- Ownership statement in the name of Ḥāfiẓ Afandī, a Naqshbandī, on fol. 8a.
- 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. 8a.
- Fol. 1a has an inscription and a prayer (invocation). Fol. 1b-7b have a table of contents, outlined in red and filled in red and black ink. An excerpt from Ibn al-ʻArabī's Kitāb al-Waṣāyā on fol. 8a. Several short inscriptions on fol. 141a-142b, chiefly ḥadīth and an excerpt entitled "Min Ḥāshiyat al-ʻAlqamī ʻalá al-Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaghīr" (fol. 141b-142a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 143 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small script in black ink. Title is written inside a triangular head piece drawn in two lines of red ink, and the colophon is inside a triangular tail piece also drawn with two lines of red ink.
- Origin: Copied by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Zawāwī and completed on the 26th of Rajab 1030 (1621) -- colophon (fol. 140b).
- Incipit: قال الشيخ عبد الوهاب بن احمد بن علي بن احمد بن محمد ابن موسى ابن ابي عبد الله سلطان تلمسان ... وبعد فهذه عهود ومواثيق اخذت علينا من مشايخنا
- Explicit: ولاخطر على قلب بشر فعل وليكن هذا آخر العهود والمواثيق قال المولف رحمة الله تعالي وكان الفراغ من تاليفه سنة خمس واربعين وتسعماية والله ولي التوفيق وهو علي كل شي قدير
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green paper. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in purple paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in green leather.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 300
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/79e20a46-9470-46d5-8bb1-a556860174a9/manifest