Item Summary

Ibn ʻAbbād's commentary on Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh's al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah, followed by the text of the Ḥikam itself.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح حكم ابن عطاء الله السكندري لمولانا العلامة المتقن المفتن سيدي محمد بن ابراهيم بن عباد النفزاوي الرندي ... .
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ Ḥikam Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-[I]skandarī li-Mawlānā al-ʻAllāmah al-mutqan al-muftann Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbbād al-Nafzāwī al-Rundī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 288Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jd473005w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1818
Extent
292 leaves : paper ; 215 x 152 (165 x 92) mm. bound to 215 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2777
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2778
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 143 (no. 11)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 143 (no. 11, cmt. a)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 146
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. fol. 1a-272a: Sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah.
2. fol. 275a-291a: Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Only text 2 is dated: copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad and completed on the 25th of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1233 (1818) -- colophon, text 2 (fol. 291a).
21 lines per page. Texts written in similar hand, both in small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text 1 written within a double line frame in red ink, with ff. 1b and 2a in gold leaf frame outlined in black and red ink. Illuminated head piece on fol. 1b made with gold leaf and white, purple, orange and grey watercolors. Glazed European paper. Text 2 on a different glazed European paper of slightly smaller dimensions with frame ruled margins. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf in both texts. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil.
Binding Note
Brown leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with gold guilloche, fillets and small rosetta stamps. Gold central mandorlas with pendants. Same design on envelope flap. Endleaves and lining to envelope flap in olive marbled paper. Lining to fore-edge flap in light brown leather. Label on spine: "Taṣawwuf 109".

Physical Characteristics

File Count
295

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/89022c81-b48c-4dd2-baff-7db9b20e565f/manifest