Item Summary

A treatise on the significance of solitude at certain times, based on traditions.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ترجيح العزلة في آخر الزمان / للحافظ محمد بن ابراهيم الوزير.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tarjīḥ al-ʻuzlah fī ākhir al-zamān / lil-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1012H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcff365h83c
Publisher
[between 1600 and 1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
19 leaves : paper ; 207 x 150 (165 x 90) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Amīr, Yaḥyá[?] ibn ʻAlī al-Daylamī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1497.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes; marginal summaries. On folio 19a-b a question and response beginning "qāla al-Nawawī fī sharḥ Muslim fī al-kalām ʻalá ḥadīth al-marʼah al-khathʻamīyah ..."
Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 ; collation note ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red or black.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هو الله الحمد لله الذى اوضح على لسان رسوله ... وبعد فهذا مختصر مفيد في بيان مرجحات في بعض الاوقات والازمان ...
Colophon: والله سبحانه اعلم انتهى ولله الحمد اولا واخرًا
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Solitude—Religious aspects—Islam
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
46

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5a8bc99-3b0c-4e52-9d88-da9f9445aac9/manifest