Item Summary

A Sufi treatise on the path of the soul towards God.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب السير والسلوك الى ملك الملوك / تأليف قاسم الخاني الخلوتي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Sayr wa-al-sulūk ilá malik al-mulūk / taʼlīf Qāsim al-Khānī al-Khalwatī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1046H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqf85np90w
Publisher
[1852]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1852
Extent
130 leaves : paper ; 170 x 125 (130 x 85) mm bound to 170 x 133 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1593.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 129 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; glazed European paper.
Origin: Copy completed on the 4th of Jumādá al-Thānī 1268 (1852) -- colophon (fol. 128b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اهبط بحكمته اسرار ذاته من سماء العمالي الي ارض الطبيعة الكلية واودعها بقدرته في صدف النطق اظهار الخواص الاسما
Explicit: ولا تقدر اليها الاخ علي ردها الا بالتمسك بالتمسك بالشريعة المحمدية وصحبة العلما والله الموقف لا رب غيره وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما دايما ابدا الي يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over pasteboard. Blind fillets around borders of covers and the envelope flap. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers, and a small blind-stamped medallion on the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in decorative paper, green with white and orange print. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
272

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f628249c-c4af-4b8d-9fe6-fd6a7f223bfb/manifest