Item Summary

Collection of Arabic texts on Sufism, Qurʼān recitation, and other topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الفرائض ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 360L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1257b559
Publisher
[1641-1726]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1641-1726
Format
Manuscript
Extent
132 leaves : paper ; 206 x 147 (149-170 x 90-105) mm bound to 211 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-2b: Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ. Incomplete treatise on inheritance.
2. fol. 3a-36b [Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah] Fragments of Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's collection of religious aphorisms. Some folios out of order.
3. fol. 37a-42b: [On tajwīd]. Unidentified fragment on the recitation of the Qurʼan.
4. fol. 43a-50b: [On readings of the Qurʼan] Unidentified text on different Qurʼanic readings. Gap after folio 46.
5. fol. 51a-106a: Mughnī[?] al-fuṣūṣ / ʻAlī Afandī ʻAzīz.
6. fol. 106b-108b: Kitāb Mafatīḥ al-yaghūb [i.e. al-ghuyūb] / Ibn al-ʻArabī al-Ḥātimī al-Ṭāʼī. Also titled Mafatīḥ al-ghayb.
7. fol. 109a-109b: [Unidentified folio]. Possibly a non-consecutive part of the previous work.
8. fol. 110a-115b: [Unidentified sections of a text]
9. fol. 116a-121b: [al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah]. Fragments from Ibn al-ʻArabī's work on Sufism.
10. fol. 122a-130b: [Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah]. Fragments of Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's collection of religious aphorisms. Gaps after folio 126 and 128. Not certain that folios 126-130 are part of this text.
11. fol. 131a-132b: [Unidentified fragment of a grammatical text]. Two pages with the upper part missing.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from beginning of first work (fol. 1b).
Label on upper cover: "280 KE".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 132 +i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-31 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-2: sun; fol. 3-34: anchor; fol. 37-42: three crescents; fol. 43-50: unidentified circular design; fol. 51-109: three crescent; fol. 110-115: roman-alphabet lettering "Le ...", coat-of-arms with a lion; fol. 116-121: three crescents; fol. 122-130: anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Mughnī al-fuṣūṣ] Dated 6 Jumādá al-Awwal 1138 (fol. 106b) -- [Unidentifed fragment of a grammatical text] Copied 17 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1051 (fol. 132b).
Incipit/Beginning: [كتاب الفرائض] اي مسائل قسمة المواريث جمع فريضة بمعني مفروضة اي مقدرة لما فيها من السهام المقدرة ... -- [حكم العطائية] ... معلولة طلبه من الله تهتمة له اذ لو وثق به فى ايصال ... -- [On tajwīd] قريشا من كنانة واصطفى من قريش بني هاشم واصطفى من بنى هاشم فانا خيار من خيار من محمد ... -- [مغنى الفصوص] ... ظهرت الواحدية مظلمة ما ظلمها الا مصطفى بل اظلم نفسه -- [كتاب مفاتيح اليغوب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المنفرد بعلم المفاتيح الاول اما بعد فان المفاتيح تعلق بعلق مغاليق غيبها وتسفل بذالك ... -- [109أ] ... عدده اثنان كذلك ؟ خلق من فبضتيهى بهذا جمع صورت ... -- [110أ] ... مخلوقتيه الا ان يزداد من ربه بعدا ... -- [الفتوحات المكية] ... تلك الخطوط بذالك الفعل من ارسال الاهداب الحايلة بين الناظر والجسم ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in light and dark red leather with brown leather spine. Blind-stamped circle and decorative blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Sufis—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
273

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4d084647-0e0a-4270-80e4-bd9274130c07/manifest