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هذ[ا] كتاب البركة في فضل السعي والحركة / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن ابن عمر ابن محمد ابن عبد الله الوصابي الحبيشى.
Hādh[ā] Kitāb al-Barakah fī faḍl al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Waṣābī al-Ḥabīshī.
1688
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
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- Related Name
- وقاصي، ياسين بن محمد، active 17th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1068H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذ[ا] كتاب البركة في فضل السعي والحركة / تأليف جمال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن ابن عمر ابن محمد ابن عبد الله الوصابي الحبيشى.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādh[ā] Kitāb al-Barakah fī faḍl al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah / taʼlīf Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Waṣābī al-Ḥabīshī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1068H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8910k627f
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1688
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 255 leaves : paper ; 178 x 115 (155 x 88) mm bound to 173 x 123 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Abwābī, al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, Aḥmad Wahbī, Abū ʻUthmān ʻAlī Muḥammad ʻUmar[?] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1911.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes and glosses.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 256 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 20-22 lines per page.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crown with cartouche) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 20 Jumād[á] al-Thānī 1099 by Yāsīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarafah al-Waqqāṣī al-Ghumrī al-ʻAlawānī. (fol. 255b).
- Colophon: ... النسخه المباركه بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه علي يد كاتبه افقر عباد الله تعالى المعترف بقبيح ذنبه ... ياسين ابن محمد ابن طرفه الوقاحي العمري العلواني تحريرا في عشرين من شهر جماد الثاني في شهار الجميس المبارك الذى هو من شهور سنة تسعة وتسعين والف والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا بنى بعده ... م م م
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الملك الجواد الهادي الي سبيل الرشاد ... اما بعد فاني لما رايت اهل بلدتنا هذه في الكسب المجتهدين وعلي الاشغال بالحرف المعتمدين ...
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Multi-colored endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 523
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/c1eba537-2766-48e7-8c0a-af857b89ab73/manifest