Item Summary

A redaction of the work al-Awāʼil by Abū Hilāl Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻAskarī, 382 [992/3], which is a book about origins and beginnings of, and pioneers in, every phase of life, whether physical, religious, moral or social.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الوسايل الى معرفة الاوايل / تأليف السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Wasāyil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāyil / taʼlīf al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 189H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3b591k37s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1672
Extent
58 leaves : paper ; 214 x 153 (148 x 95) mm.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signature for Abū al-Ṭayyib [?] on title page. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9369/70.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 659⁶.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 490.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 599.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper : fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Marginal notes. Title page has a religious exhortation.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 13 Rabīʻ I 1083 (fol. 58b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من کتابته يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث عشرين ربيع الاول الذي هو من شهور سنة ثلاثة وثمانين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والتحية وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل
Incipit: بسم الله ... وبه الاعانة الحمد لله الاول فليس له اخر
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
120

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/be674833-7cff-49f0-8ea4-f3e7cf60eb64/manifest