Item Summary

Elegant copy of an anonymous abridgment of al-Alwāḥ al-ʻImādīyah. According to R. Mach, this is probably identical with Topkapı 8677/2.

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر الالواح
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar al-Alwāḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4771Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcc534g023h
Publisher
[Aḥmadābād, 1586]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1586
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 51 leaves: paper ; 167 x 100 (111 x 60) mm. bound to 165 x 103 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3037
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a).
13 lines per page. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue and gold on fol. 1b (partly cut off). The text is framed within a gold, black and blue border. Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 1a. The first fol. is cut in two, with no apparent loss of text.
Copy completed on 13 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 994 in Aḥmadābād by Shahr? Allāh ibn Shams al-Dīn (colophon in Persian, fol. 50b). The colophon mentions the number of leaves (51).
Incipit: تبارك اسمك وتعالي ذكرك ... [2أ] ... وبعد فهذا مختصر الالواح اوردت فيه جملا من اللطايف ولمعا من الغرايب
Explicit: وخلصنا من غسق الطبيعة الى مشاهدة انوارك ومعاينة اسرارك ومجاورة مقربك ومرافقة سكان ملكوتك واحشرنا مع الذي انعمت عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا
Binding Note
Dark brown leather limp binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/744df58f-e4f9-40fb-9011-3d5ad522760f/manifest