Item Summary

A commentary on Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn, a poem in forty-eight verses on the calendar, by the same author.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه تحفة المريدين بشرح وسيلة المبتدئين.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 514H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdf65vk43b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1871
Extent
58 leaves : paper ; 159 x 114 (131 x 80) mm. bound to 159 x 118 mm.
Provenance
Signature of Surūr Shiḥātah al-Bakhshūnjī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1010.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Stated in colophon that work was composed 1273 [1856/7].
Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 + (2) + i, fol. 58 also labeled (1) ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overwriting, vowel signs and verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, cursive roman-alphabet writing "Andrea [Galvani], Pord[enone]") ; MS in good condition, some worm damage along spine edge.
Origin: According to colophon copied 23 Rabīʻ I 1288 by Aḥmad Muṣṭafá Aḥmad al-Azʹharī al-Khalwatī al-Aḥmadī al-Shādhilī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 57b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله محدد الاوقات والايام والمجدد المشهور والاعوام ... اما بعد فقد امرني بعض السادات ان اشرح منظومتي ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابتها 23 من شهر ربيع الاولى سنة 1288 على يد کاتبها الفقير الى مولاه الوفي السيد احمد مصطفى احمد الازهري الخلوتي الاحمدي الشاذلي طريقة الحنفي مذهبًا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين امين. تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and blue marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
133

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/6a0177ce-1c8a-4ec7-afdf-3f8af690eb0d/manifest