Item Summary

An encyclopedic work discussing this world and the next, the creation of man and of jinn, death, the end of the world, the resurrection and the last judgment.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب بهجة الناظيرين وآيات المستدلين / للشيخ مرعي الجيلي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Bahjat al-nāẓīrīn wa-āyāt al-mustadillīn / lil-Shaykh Marʻī al-Jīlī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 998H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqv33s820c
Publisher
1[?]28 [1619 or 1716 or 1813]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1619-1813
Format
Manuscript
Extent
305 leaves : paper ; 202 x 142 (150-175 x 85-100) mm bound to 204 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān al-Quṣaybatī al-Ṣāliḥī dated 1263 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 772.
Khulāṣat al-Athar, IV, p. 358/9.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 746.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1666.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and summaries. The author states in the introduction that the work was based on 500 sources. Note on the title page that it contains poetry, tales, stories of the prophets, lessons and traditions.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 305 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; written on several kinds of paper and apparently by different hands ; watermarks (three crescents, grapes, other unidentified) ; MS in fair condition, stained with water and mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 25 [Rajab?] 1[?]28 by Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 305b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا فتاح يا عليم وبه نستعين نحمد من شرح صدوزنا ... وبعد فيقول ... مرعى ابن يوسف الجيلى اعلم ان من اجل العلوم في القدر والشأن واعظمها في السرّ والبرهان علم النظر والاستدلال ...
Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بحمد الله وعونه. کتبه الفقير الحقير المذنب العاصي الراجي رحمة ربّه الباقي حسن بن حسين غفر الله لي ولوالدي واحسن اليهما واليه [اليّ] ولمن نظر هذه النسخة الشرﯦﻔ[ﺔ] في کل اوقات. آمين سنه 28]1] 125محرم. الهي انت مقصودي ورضاك مطلوبي
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in red leather with brown leather spine. Gold-stamped mandorla and gold- and blind-tooled edging. Leather doublures. Flap missing. Apparently covers from a type II binding were re-used without the slap and spine to create this binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
618

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0465dfdf-6a05-4dd4-8b1d-befe662f0ed5/manifest