Item Summary

Anonymous philosophical and doctrinal treatise, citing al-Rāzī, al-Dawwānī, and al-Suhrawardī, to name a few. With numerous extracts in the margins, particularly from al-Quṭb al-Shīrāzī's Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ishrāq, al-Qayṣarī's Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, and al-Rāzī's Mafātīḥ al-ghayb. There is also poetry by Majnūn Laylá on the inner front covers, flyleaves, and leaves 1a, 100b. Possibly a unique copy.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب حديقة ازهار المعارف يختص بالتنزه بها كل شخص عارف.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Ḥadīqat azhār al-maʻārif yukhtaṣṣu bi-al-tanazzuh bi-hā kull shakhṣ ʻārif.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 495L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9p290p84q
Publisher
[16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
100 leaves : paper ; 207 x 144 (163 x 105) mm bound to 207 x 147 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
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Extensive marginalia. Title also on edges of text block.
Layout: 22 lines per page.
Description: Written in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper. Watermarks (three crescents). Mild staining; front flyleaf detached. In excellent condition.
Incipit:الحمد لله الذي نصب اعلام الحقيقة هداية للناظرين وجر اليها قوالب قلوب الطالبين ... وبعد فهذه حديقة ازهار المعارف يختص بالتنزه بها كل شخص عارف
Explicit: يرجع امرهم الى ثلاثة املاك الواحد موكل الحيوة وآخر بتركيب والثالث بالفنا ومدة تدبيرهم في العام اربعة وعشرون الف سنة
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and orange paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
213

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/c40f0a8b-b56a-48cd-9d7f-5f4b7af97503/manifest