Item Summary

A work on piety and religion. Incomplete at the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مختصر من الغنية / لسيدي عبد القادر الجيلاني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb mukhtaṣar min al-Ghunyah / li-Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 330L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn009wf58j
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
146 leaves : paper ; 213 x 157 (160-175 x 105-110) mm bound to 217 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Rajab ibn al-Darwīsh Ḥusayn; ʻAlī ibn ... (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1484.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 338.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2836.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. [i]b).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "31 MX". Inscriptions on pastedowns and folio [i]a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 146 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Description: Written in different hands ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent; roman-alphabet initial countermark "PA") ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قدس سره قال الشيخ الامام العلامة العالم الزاهد ... الحمد لله الذي بتحميده يستفتح كل كتاب ...
Ending: ... صلى تعالى عليه وسلم في فضل
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
300

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b98f6d80-1f29-44df-a1b3-4c102d9552b7/manifest