Item Summary

A treatise on the Antichrist.

Descriptive Information

Title
موضحة الحال في بعض مسموعات الدجال / تأليف احمد بن محمد المدني الانصاري الشهير بالقشاشي.
Transliterated Title
Mūḍiḥat al-ḥāl fī baʻḍ masmūʻāt al-Dajjāl / taʼlīf Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Madanī al-Anṣārī al-shahīr bi-al-Qushāshī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1007H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9p290n919
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1654
Extent
13 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (155 x 90) mm bound to 217 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1528.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 13 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten. Folios 11-13 damage in inside upper corner with slight loss of text.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1064 by Muḥammad Dhiyāb (fol. 13a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله بديع السموات والارض ... وبعد فانه لما کان اعظم الفتن الواقعة في الدنيا بقدر الله تعالى فتنة الدجال وهى كاينة في هذه الامة ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ يوم الجمعة المبارك رابع عشر جمادى الآخرة سنة 1064 کاتبه محمد ذياب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) limp binding in red leather and red paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
40

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a122ae02-ed43-4809-bf4a-6135aded9fef/manifest