Item Summary

A collection containing poems and prayers.

Descriptive Information

Title
منظومة الغزالي ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Manẓūmat al-Ghazzālī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1150H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1831cx69m
Publisher
[16th century?-18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 155 x 105 (90-137 x 65-90) mm bound to 158 x 112 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2035.
Ḥ̣ājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 214; VII, p. 174
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1933/4, 3895/6¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-7b: Manẓūmat al-Ghazzālī. An ode on the articles of faith. The ode in this copy is attributed to al-Ghazzālī, though as a matter of fact it is al-Shaybānīʼs. Incomplete at end.
2. fol. 8a: [Inscriptions]
3. fol. 8b-15a: Manẓūmat al-Bakrī. A prayer with the names of God in verse, by Muṣṭafá ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī. al-Tawassul al-asná bi-al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná by this author may be identical with the present work. The copy is followed by two prayers (fol. 13b-15a).
4. fol. 15b-19b: Manẓūmat al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Jānī. A prayer with the names of God in verse.
5. fol. 20a-22b: al-Munfarijah / lil-fāḍil Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. A prayer in verse.
6. fol. 23a-40b: Ḥirz al-aqsām. A prayer by Muḥriz ibn Khalaf.
7. fol. 41a: [Inscriptions]
8. fol. 41b-54b: Duʻāʼ al-jawshan.
9. fol. 55a-58a: Duʻāʼ ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān. First folio is damaged, beginning is missing.
10. fol. 59a-60a: [Prayer]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from caption of first work (fol. 1b).
List of contents (fol. 1a). Seal of Solomon (fol. 40b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; folios 8-18 tinted yellow ; watermarks (f. 1-19, 23-40: three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "FP"; f. 41-60: unidentified) ; MS in fair condition, mended.
Origin: [Prayer] According to colophon copy completed 1193 by Muṣṭafá al-Saʻdī (fol. 60a). Duʻāʼ ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sulṭān is written in the same hand.
Incipit: [منظومة الغزالي] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ساحمد ربي طاعة وتعبدا * وانظم عقدا في العقيدة اوحدا -- [منظومة البكري] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لك الحمد ياالله والشكر والثنا * ونهدي صلاة مع سلام بجمعينا -- [منظومة الشيخ احمد الجاني] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... وصلات بالتسليم تجي -- [المنفرجة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الشدة اوذن بالمهج * يارب فعجل بالفرج-- [حرز الاقسام] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اتعوزت بالرحماني فى السر والجهري * من الشرك والشيطاني ما دمة في عمري -- [دعأ الجوشن] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم اني اسالك يالله يارحمن -- [Prayer] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم استغفر الله العظيم استغفر الله العظيم استغفر الله العظيم الذي لا اله الا هو الحي القيوم
Colophon: [منظومة البكري] لك الحمد بلله والشكر والثنا تمت بالخير -- [المنفرجة] تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه وعدت ابياتها نمان وخمسين بيت بالتمام والكمال والحمد لله وحده -- [حرز الاقسام] وصلى علي الانصار والسادت الغرس تمت م -- [[دعا عبد الله] تم الشرح المبارك بعون الله وحمده وهو هذا الدعا المبارك -- [Prayer] وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم سليما كثيرا م م م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and brown marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
God (Islam)—Name—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Colored papers
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cce19fe4-e2d6-4317-859e-823137878ead/manifest