Item Summary

A commentary on Rātib al-quṭb al-Ḥaddād, a collection of dhikr and prayers by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥaddādī (1634 or 5-1719 or 20).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ذخيرة المعاد بشرح راتب القطب الحداد / تأليف عبد الله بن احمد بن عبد الله بن محمد با سودان المقدامي الخضرمي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Dhakhīrat al-maʻād bi-sharḥ Rātib al-quṭb al-Ḥaddād / taʼlīf ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Bā Sūdān al-Miqdāmī al-Khaḍramī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1048H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx920g849w
Publisher
[1853]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1853
Extent
i, 149 leaves : paper ; 228 x 164 (155 x 105) mm bound to 230 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1599.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII (566, no. 12, cm. b).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Two obliterated inscriptions on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 149 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks.
Origin: Copied by Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd Allāh Bilkhayr and completed on the 15th of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1270 (1853) -- colophon (fol. 149a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي الهم خاصته واولياءه حقيقة الذكر والتذكار والذكرى وجعل لهم فيه وبه ومنه وجدان الناثر والتاثير والاثرى
Explicit: وانتفع به معترفاً باني تهدفت لما لم اكن له اهلاً الا اذ يعفو الكريم منةً وفضلاً وصلى على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over pasteboard. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-stamped cornerpieces. Wide blind guilloche and several fillets around the borders. Similar decoration on flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather with silver paper pasted over.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
312

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb7d30cc-efc2-4792-a226-fbc97b58762a/manifest