Item Summary

A treatise on principles of Sufism.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الروضة الانيقة في بيان الشريعة والحقيقة / للشيخ عبد العزيز بن احمد بن سعيد الدميري الديريني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Rawḍah al-anīqah fī bayān al-sharīʻah wa-al-ḥaqīqah / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʻīd al-Damīrī al-Dīrī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1042H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/h989rb43x
Publisher
[before 1641]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1641
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 206 x 153 (160 x 85) mm bound to 208 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ... dated 1280, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Muṣṭafá[?] Ibrāhīm Ḥammād (fol. 1a); Muḥammad ... al-Shāfiʻī, Ḥusyan ibn Ismāʻīl[?] (fol. 10a). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1575.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Several short inscriptions on fol. 1a and fol. 10a-b, one of them (on fol. 10b) a record of birth on the 10th of Ṣafar 1051 (1641). Another date on the same fol.: 18th of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1082 (1671).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written in a casual medium small script with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermarks.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اوضح الحق لطالبه واظهر تحقيقه ونور الطريق لسالكه ... هذه رسالة مختصرة جزيلة رقيقة
Explicit:من قال ان الادب مع الشيخ يسقط بموته فقد خالف الشريعة وطريق القوم بل حرمته المشايخ باقية الي يوم القيمة ... والمستعان على كل امر مهول
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and orange paper with painted green and white pattern.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b11e812a-c660-403c-91ae-5da3c979f55f/manifest