Item Summary

A commentary on a magical poem by Thābit ibn Sulaymān.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الجهات في علم التوجهات في شرح قصيدة ثابت بن سليمان / للشيخ ابي الحسن علي بن ارفع رأس ال... الاندلسي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Jihāt fī ʻilm al-tawajjuhāt fī sharḥ qaṣīdat Thābit ibn Sulaymān / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Arfaʻ Raʼs al-... al-Andalusī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 263B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tt44pq48g
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
67 leaves : paper ; 192 x 142 (141 x 82) mm bound to 192 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement (fol. 1a). Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 41.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Labels on spine.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 67 (f. 67 is later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله خالق عقول نفوس ارواح الروحانية ومفضلها في هياکل محسوس الاشباح الجسمانية ...
Colophon: تم ذلك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله تعالى على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم کثيرا
Binding Note
Later full type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled square design on covers and edging on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Thābit ibn Sulaymān—Qaṣīdah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/40da0e9d-ab94-43ac-99ac-0b4faa9e8303/manifest