Item Summary

Treatise urging moral and pious life. The two titles mentioned after the waṣīyah of al-Wāsiṭī on the title page do not appear in the copy as extant.

Descriptive Information

Title
وصية الشيخ عماد الدين الواسطي ولمعة الاعتقاد للشيخ الامام موفق الدين عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد بن قدامة المقدسي ووصية الشيخ جمال الدين ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن ابن الجوزي لولده
Transliterated Title
Waṣīyat al-Shaykh ʻImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī wa-Lumʻat al-iʻtiqād lil-Shaykh al-Imām Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī wa-Waṣīyat al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-Jawzī li-waladih.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1065H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnk322s02n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1373
Extent
8 leaves: paper ; 175 x 130 (135 x 95) mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1903
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The first part of the title up to "al-Wāsiṭī" in black ink, what follows in red ink.
Collation: Paper, fol. 8 ; 1⁶ (+2, fol. 1-2) ; catchword on the verso of the leaves of the first half of the quire ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible.
Origin: Copied in Damascus on 5 Rajab 775 [Dec. 21, 1373] by ʻUmar ibn ʻĀdī ibn ʻAlī al-Maqdīsī al-Ḥanbalī (colophon, fol. 8b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلّامة العارف الحمقّق ابو العبّاس عماد الدين احمد بن ابرهبم بن عبد الرحمن الواسطى قدّس الله روحه ... الحمد لله على تواتر نعمائه وتوالي الآية حمدًا كثيرًا يصعد اليه فى سموّه
Explicit: فلا يجعلنا ممّن طوّل عليه الطريق ووابتلاه فى امور دنياه بما فيه التعويق آمين يا ربّ العالمين تمت الرسالة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in dark blue paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

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/ba3e82bd-c670-449f-a6a9-dd359d5ce4be/manifest