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Collection of Arabic poems and prayers and Persian texts on Sufism.
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Item Summary
Collection of Arabic poems and prayers and Persian texts on Sufism.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا سلسلة الذهب ... [الخ]
- Transliterated Title
- Hāz̲ā Silsilat al-z̲ahab ... [etc.].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 348L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm039kj21b
- Publisher
- [17--?]
- Language
- Persian
- Date Created
- 1700-1799
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 104 leaves : paper ; 162 x 109 (130 x 78-90) mm bound to 165 x 117 mm
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-18b: [Poems, prayers, and extracts in Arabic]. Excised from several different manuscripts.
- 2. fol. 19a-57a: [Persian treatise on Sufism]. Unidentified; incomplete at beginning.
- 3. fol. 58a-104b: Silsilat al-z̲ahab / [Jāmī]. Sufi poem on Naqshabandi doxology, part of the Haft awrang. Incomplete at beginning.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Collective title from text 3, leaf 57b.
- On front cover, label reading "282 KE".
- Layout: Varying lines per page ; Silsilat al-z̲ahab written in two colums.
- Description: Written in a variety of scripts in black by different hands on laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Text 3 has some crossouts. Leaves 1-9 are detached. Extensive damp staining, a few paper repairs, and some creasing. In fair condition.
- Explicit (text 2): ذکر گو ذکر تا ترا جان است * زندگى دل بذکر ىزدان است ... [؟] ز ذکر بذکر ذکر خفيه که گفته اند اىنست تمت
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 216
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/e178698d-643a-4711-8be8-a02587e01237/manifest