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هذا كتاب البركات في حصول الخيرات.
Hādhā Kitāb al-Barakāt fī ḥuṣūl al-khayrāt.
1823
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
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- Author
- Qārūṭ, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, active 19th century
- قاروط، محمد بن عبد الغني، active 19th century
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1083H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise in praise of endeavor and labor.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب البركات في حصول الخيرات.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb al-Barakāt fī ḥuṣūl al-khayrāt.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1083H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9z903b56m
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1823
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 216 leaves : paper ; 225 x 160 (175 x 105) mm bound to 220 x 165 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1930.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. After close comparison, it is evident that the author plagiarised Kitāb al-Barakah fī faḍl al-saʻy wa-al-ḥarakah by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥubayshī al-Waṣābī.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 216 + ii ; 22 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet letters "VDS", "GBE...") ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 13 Dhū al-Qaʻd 1238, presumably in Kafr Sūsah, by the author (fol. 215b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله الملك الجواد ... اما بعد فاني لما رأيت اهل بلدتنا هذه في الکسب المجتهدين وعلي الاشغال بالحرف معتمدين ...
- Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله وحسن توفيقه وکان الفراغ من نسخه نهار الاثنين ثالث عشر ذ[ي] القعدة الحرام سنة ثمانية وثلاثين ومائتين والف احسن الله ختامه على يد جامعه الفقير محمد الخطيب في جامع قريته کفر سوسه ابن عبد الغني القاروط الشافعي المذهب صديقي خولان الطريقتين على طريقت [طريقة] عبد القادر والرفاعي رضي الله عنهما وعن سائر الاولياء والصالحين امين امين امين
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and tan paper. Not sewn.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 447
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1e91d104-1810-48e8-95df-0e1c97a0ffef/manifest