Item Summary

A collection of stories from the lives of the Prophet, the first four caliphs and some of the Companions, calculated to lead to moral life.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب قمع النفوس ورقية المأيوس / تأليف تقي الدين الحسيني الحصني الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Qamʻ al-nufūs wa-ruqyat al-maʼyūs / taʼlīf Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥiṣnī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1069H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgq67k387m
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 215 x 159 (140 x 110) mm bound to 210 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Abū Bakr ibn ʻUthmān dated 1009, Muḥyī al-Dīn Jār Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Shāfiʻī, Saʻd Allāh al-Khālidī ibn .. dated 1219, several obscured names (fol. 1a); obscured signature (fol. 135b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1913.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 570.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8816/7.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. The work was composed in Jerusalem in 807 [1405].
Collation: Paper; fol. 123 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; stained with dampness.
Origin: Probably from XVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى الحمد لله الذي خلق الموجودات من ظلمة العدم بنور الايجاد ... وبعد فان الناس کانوا في جاهلية جهلاء وعمية عميا حتى جاء الحق وزهق الباطل ان الباطل كان زهوقا ...
Colophon: قال المصنف رضي الله عنه جمعت هذه الاحرف بالقدس الشريف راجيا من الرب اللطيف العفو عما اجترحته وضيعت وقتي فيه بالتسويف. وکان الفراغ منه في يوم الخميس العشر الاخير من شوال سنة سبع وثمان مائة وسميته قمع النفوس ورقية المأيوس. والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد سيد الاولين والاخرين وعلى سائر الانبياء والمرسلين والکل وسائر الصالحين ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين وعن کل التابعين لهم باحسان الى يوم الدين وحسبي الله وکفى
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped and appliqued mandorla of light brown leather and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Green paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands. Edges and spine of binding repaired with red leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Companions—Biography—Early works to 1800
Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
281

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3f8a557a-c3c6-4d15-85dc-6fa9c32f8c08/manifest