Item Summary

Treatise on the spiritual teaching of al-Shaykh Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Mursī and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, comprising ten chapters (bāb) and a conclusion. The conclusion comprises three parts: al-Lāmiʻah al-munīrah wa-al-durrah al-khaṭīrah (fol. 90b) ; al-Waṣīyah al-maktūbah ilá ikhwāninā al-Iskandarīyah (sic, fol. 92a) ; Qaṣīdah (fol. 94a).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب لطائف المنن في مناقب الشيخ ابو العباس المرسي الشاذلي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-minan fī manāqib al-Shaykh Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Mursī al-Shādhilī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 226Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hh63sz50q
Publisher
[1722]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1722
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 95, i leaves: paper ; 212 x 158 (169 x 95) mm. bound to 212 x 165 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 1283 H. [1866 or 7] on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4711
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 118/15
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 146/15
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines throughout. Glazed European paper with watermark (vine). On fol. 1a: Several inscriptions, with ownership statements, description of contents, prayer. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 49". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1249".
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 95, i ; i (blank free endpaper in European glazed paper) + 1-9¹⁰ 10⁴ (+1, fol. 92) + i (blank free endpaper in European glazed paper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Copy completed on a Wednesday in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1134 by ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān Ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī Bālī al-Qudsī al-Ḥanafī "khādim naʻāl al-sādat al-ṣūfīyah" (colophon, fol. 95b).
Incipit: قال العبد الفقير ... احمد بن محمد بن عبد الكريم ابن عطاء الله الحمد لله الذى فتح لاوليائه باب محبته وانشط نفوسهم من عقال القطيعة ... [2أ] ... اما بعد فانى قصدت فى هذا الكتاب ان اذكر جملاً من فضايل
Explicit: فهم خبير القرون ومن هدانا بهم رب العباد من الذنوب [95ب] واحمد ليس يرجو فى معاد سوى جاه النبى لذى الكروب ووالده محمد فاعف عنه ودراكه بلطف من قريب تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Both covers have a blind central stamp with an outer frame made of fillets. Similar frame on the envelope flap with a smaller stamp on its point. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Mursī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar d. 1287
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh approximately 1196-1258
Shādhilīyah—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines—13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f7717115-4b0e-4b1a-9eed-f76be13ef896/manifest