Item Summary

Short work about ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī containing selections from his poems.

Descriptive Information

Title
نزهة الخاطر في شعر سيدي عبد القادر / تأليف محمد صدقة بن عمر بن محمد بن محمد العادلي الشافعي القادري.
Transliterated Title
Nuzʹhat al-khāṭir fī shiʻr sayyidī ʻAbd al-Qādir / taʼlīf Muḥammad Ṣadaqah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀdilī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 24H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccj82kk27h
Publisher
[not after 1451]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1380-1451
Format
Manuscript
Extent
14 leaves : paper ; 175 x 132 (115 x 80) mm bound to 183 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 40.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Immediately after the colophon is a prayer in nine verses of poetry. Six following folios contain an ode by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; a few verses of wisdom, three of which are by al-Afwah, a noted pre-Islamic poet; a genealogy of the author carried back to Adam; still another genealogy of the authorʼs maternal ancestry; three short poems on Ṣūfī love and three prayers in prose.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 14 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; some folios lightly tinted ; MS in fair condition; folios 1 and 4 are foxed and mended with gauze with some loss of legibility.
Origin: According to colophon copied by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad Ṣadaqah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀdilī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī (fol. 9a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي جعل اشعار الاخيار حکما ... اما بعد فانه لما ظهرت خرقتي في البلاد
Colophon: وکتبه راجي الله تعالى ابوالفتح محمد صدقه بن عمر بن محمد بن محمد العادلي الشافعي القادري عفا الله عنه. کتب بتاريخ سنة ... للهجرة
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper. Previous covering of stiffened yellow paper bound inside the current binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī -1166
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
46

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/be3adc19-a530-405c-afd9-f252b16c6e97/manifest