Item Summary

A treatise on death.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب حادي القلوب الى لقاء المحبوب / تأليف الشيخ ابي عبد الله ناصر الدن محمد بن المليق الشاذلي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ḥādi al-qulūb ilá liqāʼ al-maḥbūb / taʼlīf al-Shaykh Abī ʻAbd Allāh Nāṣir al-Din Muḥammad ibn al-Malīq al-Shādhilī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1038H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchx11xs91h
Publisher
[1769]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1769
Extent
39 leaves : paper ; 184 x 128 (135 x 95) mm bound to 186 x 132 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1577.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (146), SII (148).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
A ḥadīth and an inscription about the author on fol. 1a. A small circular stamp with "Aḥmad" in the centre and date 1219 (1804-5) on fol. 1b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 39 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written in a medium small script in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper.
Origin: Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Barakāt al-Khanānī [?] al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī and completed on the 25th of Muḥarram 1183 (1769) -- colophon (fol. 39b).
Incipit: بسملة وبه ثقتى الحمد لله مقدر الموت على العباد ومحذر الفوت لينتهزوا فرصة الاجتهاد وجاعل موت المومنين وسيلة الى لقايه ومدخلا الى دار احسانه وحسن جزايه
Explicit: ولا تجعل فى قلوبنا غلا للذين امنوا ربنا انك روف رحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and purple and red marbled paper. Flyleaves in dark cream wove paper. Substantial insect damage to the spine and the ms is loose inside the covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
90

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19245715-7079-49c4-9b88-d9fd70f0e692/manifest