Item Summary

A treatise about the death and the intermediate state between death and the resurrection. The author states in the preface that he employed traditions from al-Tadhkirah of al-Qurṭubī, 671 [1272/3].

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح الصدور بشرح احوال الموتى في القبور / تأليف ابي الفضل عبد الرحمن جلال الدين السيوطي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ aḥwāl al-mawtá fī al-qubūr / taʼlīf Abī al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1008H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1257b4885
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1699
Extent
204 leaves : paper ; 206 x 156 (150 x 110) mm bound to 205 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1503.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV. p. 39.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 361, II, p. 163.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2665-8.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 204 ; quires signed: al-thānī-al-ʻashrūn ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 24 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1110 by Muḥammad al-Munshāwī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 204a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي ايقظ من يشا ... هذا ما اشتد تشوق النفوس اليه من کتاب ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا الشرح المبارك يوم الاثنين المبارك رابع عشرين شهر الحجة المبارك من شهورسنة الف وماية وعشر من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام على يد کاتبه الفقير الحقيرالمعترف بالعجزوالتقصير محمد المنشاوي الشافعي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولکل المسلمين اجمعين يا رب العالمين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in golden brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Bind-tooled edging on flap. Not sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
419

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7fdfbc36-3957-431c-9303-adeb1bab3c90/manifest