Item Summary

A collection of selections, in verse and prose, calculated to promote edification and piety. Incomplete at the beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الزهر الزاهر في الدلالة على قدرة العزيز القاهر.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Zahr al-zāhir fī al-dalālah ʻalá qudrat al-ʻAzīz al-Qāhir.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1081H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6682xg66d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1730
Extent
122 leaves : paper ; 204 x 150 (152 x 100) mm bound to 203 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Salām Abū ʻAzālah[?] dated 1261 with his seal impression (f. [i]a); faint seal impression (f. 78a); obscured signature (f. 122a); Ibrāhīm Khalīfah Ṭūqān and obscured name (f. 122b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1926.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1399.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later title page (fol. [i]a).
A few marginal notes. Magic square (fol. 122b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 122 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents; other unidentified) ; MS in poor condition, several folios are defective.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 18 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1143 (fol. 122a).
Beginning: ... ان الله تبارك وتعالى قال في کتابه العزيز ايها النبي ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا المجموع المبارك في يوم الاثنين الموافق لثامن عشر ربيع الثاني من شهور سنة 1143 من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام امين امين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper. Multi-colored endbands. Lower cover defective.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
256

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bcb08aa9-d8ed-45b5-86aa-e5106055dc25/manifest