Descriptive Information

Title

[مجموعهء رسائل في تصوف]

Transliterated Title

[Mecmua-yi resail fi tasavvuf].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2044Y

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcsx61dx79x

Publisher

[1839-1856]

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Date Created

1839-1856

Format

Manuscript

Extent

100 leaves : paper ; 205 x 130 (128 x 58) mm bound to 205 x 132 mm.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Contents

1. fol. 2b-11b: Risale-yi muradiye.

2. fol. 11b-42a: Min Tarikatname-yi Eşref Zade Abdullah Rumî.

3. fol. 42b-86b: Risale-yi tarikatname.

4. fol. 87a: Silsile-yi Şabaniyye [the chain of authority of the Shaʻbānīyah branch of the Khalwatīyah order, ending with İbrahim Kuşadalî].

5. fol. 87b: [copies of two letters, the first is signed by the Khalwatī sheikh İbrahim Kuşadalî, was written on 21 of R. 1245 (1829) and copied (from the original in his own hand) on 21 of R. 1265 (1849), and the second is dated (written or copied) 15 of Muḥarram 1261 (1845)].

6. fol. 88b-89a: [copies of two letters, the first dated 19 of RA. '58 (1842)].

7. fol. 89b-95b: [selection of verses, each of the short sections entitled "düstur"].

8. fol. 96b-97a: [A letter from Şeyh Mısrî to Şeyh Ahmet Gazzi]. Letter sent in 1075/1664-5.

9. fol. 97b-98a: [a short text concerning Ibn al-ʻArabī and Ali el-Etval Karabaş Veli].

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Title provided by the cataloger.

Copied between 1839 and 1856 (see individual records for separate texts).

Layout: 15 lines per page.

Description: Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red (exceptions to this are the few short texts at the end of the ms). All main texts have catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks.

Origin: [Risale-yi muradiye] Copied on 27th of Ṣafar 1255 (1839) -- colophon (fol. 11b) -- [Min Tarikatname-yi] Copy completed on 21st of R. 1255 (1839) -- colophon (fol. 42a) -- [Risale-yi tarikatname] Copy completed on the 6th of RA. 1256 (1840) -- colophon (fol. 86b). Most of the texts written in the same hand.

Incipit: [رسالهء مراديه] الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيد المرسلين الطرق الى الله بعدد انفاس الخلايق زمزمه سيله نفس نوع -- [طريقتنامه] اطيعوا الله واطيعوا الرسول واولو الامر منكم يعنى الله تعالى بيورر كيم -- [رسالهء طريقتنامه] الحمد لله الذى جعلنا انساناً عاقلاً لتحصيل الكمال و لائقا لعرفانه مع الجلال والجمال ... ايمدى معلوم اولسون كه انسان ايمى قمدر -- [Letter] كوزم نورى برادر عزيزم احمد افندى

Explicit: [رسالهء مراديه] اهل توحيدى خطادن امين ايليه امين وانا الفقير احقر الورى خادم نعال الفقرا الشيخ احمد غزى زاده السيد عبد اللطيف بن محمد اسعد غفر الله لنا ولجميع المسلمين تم بعون الله ومنه التوفيق -- [طريقتنامه] شويله قالور اكا روح جسمانى ديرلر بلكه عذاب طوين دخى اولدر لا يعلم الغيب الا الله تم الرساله بعون الله [هذا ما تيسر لى من تحرير بعض ما اورده الشيخ العالم الفاضل ... عبد الله الرومى ... اللهم ارحم لى بمدد شفاعت -- [رسالهء طريقتنامه] آز ييمك وآز اويومق وآز سويلمك وناسدن آيرلمق ودائما ذكرده اولمق -- [Letter] اما بولايكه چوكانى الدن براغوب طوپى قپاسنكه اصل مصلحت اولدر

Binding Note

Type III (without flap) binding in red leather over pasteboard. Blind-tooled border design on covers, made with a blind guilloche, several blind fillets and small rosetta stamps. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject

Sufism—Doctrines

Sufism—Rituals

Dervishes—Customs and practices

Khalwatīyah

Shaʻbānīyah

Qādirīyah

Niyazî 1617 or 1618-1693 or 1694—Correspondence

Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Blind tooled bindings

Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count

210

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/122bb326-3899-4940-a9d4-f58477e3cd7e/manifest

Copy Copied