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كتاب كوكب الفجر في شرح حزب البحر / تصنيف محمد بن عربي.
Kitāb Kawkab al-fajr fī sharḥ Ḥizb al-baḥr / taṣnīf Muḥammad ibn ʻArabī.
1300-1399
A commentary on Ḥizb al-baḥr.
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Item Summary
A commentary on Ḥizb al-baḥr.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب كوكب الفجر في شرح حزب البحر / تصنيف محمد بن عربي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Kawkab al-fajr fī sharḥ Ḥizb al-baḥr / taṣnīf Muḥammad ibn ʻArabī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1108H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vp975
- Publisher
- [13--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1300-1399
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 57 leaves : paper ; 168 x 128 (130 x 86) mm. bound to 168 x 130 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1946.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SNI, 805.
- Yahya, O. Histoire et classification, no. 346.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 1a.
- Ms. additions: short inscriptions on fol. iiia-b, chiefly prayers and invocations; a fairly long inscription on the author below the title on fol. 1a; text of Ḥizb al-baḥr in a later hand on fol. 52b-53b; fol. 54a-57b are a later addition on different paper (from another ms?; the paper is of poorer quality and due to damage the text on these fol. is much less legible), and contain a short text on fol. 54a, a qaṣidah by Abū al-Faḍl Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Tawzarī, known as Ibn al-Naḥwī (ca. 1041-1119 or 20) on fol. 54b-55a, a selection of poetry entitled: "Li-Shaykh al-Islām Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī al-Ṣadīqī" on fol. 55b, and short inscriptions and invocations on fol. 56a-57b.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 57 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; glazed cream paper with prominent pulp in two shades, one almost orange.
- Origin: Text is undated, but the style and paper suggest an early date, 14th or possibly even 13th century.
- Incipit: بسملة وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله سلم الحمد لله العلي بذاته وهو فى علوه دان فلا يحيط به العقول ... وبعد فقد سألنى بعض اخوان الصديقين من الطايفة العزيزة الشريفة
- Explicit: والله سبحانه وتعالى يرشدنا الى فهم حقايق اسمايه وصفاته ويهدينا الى طريق الصواب ومناجاته والاستعاذة بآياته انه هو الولى الهادى
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 135
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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