Item Summary

Elegant copy of an abridgment in forty chapters (bāb) of the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. See table of contents at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b-2b).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اللباب من الاحياء / تصنيف الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ... ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Lubāb min al-Iḥyāʼ / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-imām ḥujjat al-Islām ... Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 838Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ws859j265
Publisher
[1367?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1367
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 186, i leaves: paper ; 205 x 148 (125 x 98) mm. bound to 206 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements dated Shaʻbān 1187 [1773] and 14 Rajab 1225 on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2164
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of gold and blue for the headings. Red is also sporadically used. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, red, blue and green on fol. 1a. Collation notes (collation statement fol. 186b). Ownership statements dated 1215, 1243 and 1315 H. on fol. (i)a (partly illegible). Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 4). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 186, i ; i, 1⁶ (+1, fol. 7) 2-18¹⁰ 19⁶ (+3, fol. 178-180), i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
According to the colophon, copied in the middle decade of Rajab 768 (fol. 186b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام حجة الاسلام ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى رحمه الله الحمد لله على اسباغ نعمه وصلى الله ... اما بعد فقد عنّ لى فى بعض اسفارى ان استخرج من كتاب احياء علوم الدين بتعذر استصحابه مع كبر حجمه
Explicit: و ثقلت البطاقة فى كفة فلا تثقل مع الله شيء
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—11th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn

Physical Characteristics

File Count
193

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/29649196-0b96-45f0-88f3-8d478d3f9a8d/manifest