Item Summary

Collection consisting of named works, Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd al-bāhij al-nūn and Kitāb al-Ādāb, together with numerous extracts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مختصر سراج التوحيد الباهج النون ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd al-bāhij al-nūn ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 141H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbz60d724s
Publisher
[between 1600 and 1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
231 leaves : paper, illustration ; 203 x 150 (140-157 x 80-90) mm bound to 198 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 767, 205, 738.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5826.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 478.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-6b: [Fawāʻid] Includes a qaṣīdah by Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Andulusī; verses of poetry by al-Zamakhsharī, al-Maʻarī, al-Sayyid ʻAlī and others; quotations including one attributed to Kaʻb al-Aḥbār.
2. fol. 7a-84b: Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd al-bāhij al-nūn / lil-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad al-Yāfiʻī al-Yamanī. A book designed to aid people to determine the times and seasons of prayer, fasting and the variations in the length of days and nights. Includes diagram on fol. 36b.
3. fol. 85a-91a: [Excerpts from tradition]
4. fol. 91a-93a: Hādhā al-Asmā al-Ḥusná. The ninety-nine names of God.
5. fol. 94a-146b: [Majmūʻat khurāfāt wa-ashʻār]. A collection of ancient fables and poems of South Arabian origin. Incomplete at the beginning.
6. fol. 147b-154a: [Fawāʻid] Miscellaneous additions including: Bāb al-Dukhūl ʻalá al-salāṭīn, selections by al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī , verses of poetry by Nashwān al-Ḥimyarī, Ibn Hānī al-Maʻarrī, Manṣūr ibn Ismāʻīl al-Yamanī and others. Folio 154a overwritten.
7. fol. 154b-231b: Kitāb al-Ādāb. An anthology in five parts: (1) wisdom sayings in prose, (2) short selections, (3) wisdom sayings in verse, (4) proverbs and (5) miracle verses. Incomplete at end.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 7a).
Marginal glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 231 ; catchwords ; folios 8-84 labeled 2-77 in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; folios 155-231 labeled 2-78 in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-19 lines per page.
Description: Headings in black, red, yellow and blue-green ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor; crown-star-crescent; countermark initials; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition. MS is rare.
Origin: [Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd] Copied Thursday 27 Shaʻbān 1041 (fol. 84b).
Incipit: [مختصر سراج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العارف بالله تعالى عبد الله بن اسعد اليافعي الشافعى -- [مجموعة خرافات واشعار] مواسفين بهم فيها مبادهة -- [کتاب الآداب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على سيد المرسلين ... وبعد فان الطف الكلام موفعا واشرفه موضعا
Colophon: [مختصر سراج] تم الکتاب بعون الکريم الوهاب أذان الظهر يوم الخميس المبارك سابع وعشرين شهر شعبان الکريم احد شهور احدى واربعين والف سنة من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوات والسلام. ولا حول ولا قوة الاّ بالله العلي العظيم -- [مجموعة خرافات واشعار] في صفصف نحوشهم * بالمشرفي الحسام -- [کتاب الآداب] ما العلم الا ما وعاه الصدر
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and block-stamped paper. Upper cover damaged revealing re-used manuscript pages used in the cover.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Timekeeping—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
scientific illustrations (images)
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
470

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7d1218f7-bab7-47a7-82f8-0b5e946d70e9/manifest