Descriptive Information

Title

نفحة العنبر في نسب الشيخ علي اسكندر ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Nafḥat al-ʻanbar fī nasab al-Shaykh ʻAlī Iskandar ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1806Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sf268f62d

Publisher

Ramaḍān 1171-9 Rajab 1173 [May/June 1758-February 26, 1760]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1758-1760

Format

Manuscript

Extent

leaves : paper ; 207 x 152 (155-175 x 95-110) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2946, 4491.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-11a: Nafḥat al-ʻanbar fī nasab al-Shaykh ʻAlī Iskandar. Genealogy of ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Iskandar al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī.

2. fol. 13a-15b: Risālah fī ḥukm al-samāʻ.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

On fol. 12b autogr. taqrīẓ by Muḥammad Abū al-Anwār ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥasanī Sibṭ Āl al-Wafāʼ.

Layout: 15-23 lines per page.

Origin: [Nafḥat al-ʻanbar] Copied Ramaḍān 1171, marginal additions and corrections by the authorʼs hand -- [Risālah fī ḥukm al-samāʻ] Copied 9 Rajab 1173, autogr. musawwadah.

Incipit: [نفحة العنبر] الحمد لله الذى اصطفى نسب نبيه ... وبعد فهذا سفر مسفر -- [رسالة في حكم السماع] اعلم ان الاذب افضل شىء تحلى به الانسان

Discovery Information

Subject

Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad -1687—Genealogy—Early works to 1800

Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Sufi chants—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

holographs (autographs)

Physical Characteristics

File Count

32

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c407495-62a3-40d8-afdb-965f71dc7656/manifest

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