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هذا كتاب الدرة الفاخرة في احوال الدنيا والاخرة.
Hādhā Kitāb al-Durrah al-fākhirah fī aḥwāl al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah.
1857
An eschatological treatise describing manʼs estate in Paradise.
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- Publisher
- Rajab 1273 [February/March 1857]
- People
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- Related Name
- صاوي، علي محمد، active 19th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 313L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An eschatological treatise describing manʼs estate in Paradise.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب الدرة الفاخرة في احوال الدنيا والاخرة.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb al-Durrah al-fākhirah fī aḥwāl al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 313L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz890s654n
- Publisher
- Rajab 1273 [February/March 1857]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1857
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 24 leaves : paper ; 254 x 177 (163 x 97) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1512.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Occasional marginal note. Note on the number of pages and price on title page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 24 + ii ; 3 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon; double-headed eagle) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed in Rajab 1273 by ʻAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣāwī (fol. 23b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وصحبه وسلم وبعد فقد جاء في الخبران الله خلق شجرة ولها اربعة اغصان وسماها شجرة اليقين ثم خلق نور محمد ...
- Colophon: تم على يد کاتبه الفقيرعلي محمد الصاوي غفرالله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين امين في شهررجب المبارك سنة الف ومائتين [وثلاثة وسبعين
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 56
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/f59102c9-fe18-45d7-ba89-40f5044ed758/manifest