فتح البصائر ... [الخ.]

Fatḥ al-baṣāʼir ... [etc.]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Arabic
  • Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Published/​Created
[1700-1899]
Description
252 leaves : paper ; 204 x 138 (140 x 70) mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Rare books genre
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Contains
Notes
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 2a).
  • Table of contents on folio [i]b-1a. Alphabet square on folio 138a.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 252 + ii ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
  • Decoration: Fatḥ al-baṣāʼir has illuminated headpiece, with gold and black frame-ruled edging on opening pages (folios 2b-3a).
  • Origin: [Sharḥ al-ḥizb al-kabīr] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1210
  • Incipit: [فتح البصائر] الحمد لله حمدا يفوق ويفضل -- [شرح حزب] الحمد لله وکفى ... استدعى بعض المريدين ... ان اشرح الحزب -- [جمع ايات السجود] الحمد لله الذى علم بالقلم -- [شرح الحزب الكبير] قال ... الحمد لله الذى بنعمته تتم الصالحات -- [غاية الفخر] الحمد لله الذى ملأ قلوب العارفين بأنوار محبته -- [مسك الحبوب] الحمد لله ... ان من احق ما يشتغل به العقلاء من الاحاديث والاخبار
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled edging. Orange/tan silver-sprinkled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Flap missing.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 2b-3b: Fatḥ al-baṣāʼir / ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
  • 2. fol. 3b-72a: [Sharḥ Ḥizb Abī al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī] / ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad al-Harawī.
  • 3. fol. 72a-77a: [Ḥizb al-baḥr] / Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qādirī.
  • 4. fol. 77a-80a: Jamʻ āyāt al-sujūd li-arbāb al-hujūd.
  • 5. fol. 80a-81a: Ṣalawāt al-qādirīyah maʻa duʻāʼ al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir.
  • 6. fol. 81a-143a: Sharḥ Ḥizb al-Imām al-Nawawī / Muṣṭafá ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ṣiddīqī.
  • 7. fol. 144a-148a: Min hawāmish Ḥizb al-baḥr wa-fawāʼidih. Gloss on al-Nawawī's Ḥizb.
  • 8. fol. 148b-151a: Ḥizb al-barr / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī.
  • 9. fol. 151a-161a: Sharḥ āyat al-Kursī / Muḥammad Asʻad Afandī. In Ottoman Turkish.
  • 10. fol. 161a-166b: Tadhkīr al-nās fī faḍāʼil yāsīn / lil-Shaykh Ṭarīqatjī. In Ottoman Turkish.
  • 11. fol.166b-171a: al-Ḥizb al-kabīr / lil-Shaykh al-Shādhilī.
  • 12. fol. 171b-207a: Sharḥ al-Ḥizb al-kabīr / lil-Shaykh Abī Zayd ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī.
  • 13. fol. 207a-226b: Kitāb Ghāyat al-fakhr bi-sharḥ Ḥizb al-baḥr / Muḥammad al-Wasīmī.
  • 14. fol. 227a-228a: Sharḥ al-Baḥr / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī.
  • 15. fol. 228a-230b: al-Awrād al-fatḥīyah / lil-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn Shihāb al-Hamadānī.
  • 16. fol. 230b-234a: Hādhā al-sifr min ahamm al-maʻārif wa-masālik al-Muṣṭafawīyah.
  • 17. fol. 234a-238a: Jawāhir al-anwār wa-nasīmāt al-azʹhār. On prayers to the Prophet Muhammad.
  • 18. fol. 238a-248a: Kitāb Mask al-ḥubūb fī baʻḍ mā nuqila min akhbār Abī Ayyūb. According to Baghdādī, Īḍāḥ al-maknūn, II, 479, the author is Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jazāʼirī, fl. 1110/1698.
  • 19. fol. 248a-250b: Hādhā al-duʻāʼ al-wird al-aʻlá / lil-Shaykh al-Akbar Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī al-Ḥātimī al-Andalusī.
Provenance
Seal impression of al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm Nūr al-Dīn with date [1]251 (fol. 1a, 2a, and prelim folio). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1875, 1944, 1808, 1916, 1912, 4606.
  • Brockelmann, GAL, I, 562 (no. 11: Duʻāʼ Fatḥ al-baṣāʼir); I, 584 (no. 5, commentary a); S I, 778; S I, 805 (6, a).
  • Brockelmann, GAL, I, 562 (no. 11: Duʻāʼ Fatḥ al-baṣāʼir); I, 584 (no. 5, commentary a); S I, 778; S I, 805 (6, a).
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
  • Ṣalawāt al-qādirīyah.
  • صلوات القادرية.
  • Min hawāmish Ḥizb al-baḥr wa-fawāʼidih.
  • من هوامش حزب البحر وفوائده.
  • Jawāhir al-anwār wa-nasīmāt al-azʹhār.
  • جواهر الانوار ونسيمات الازهار.
  • Sharḥ āyat al-Kursī.
  • شرح آية الكرسي.
  • Tadhkīr al-nās fī faḍāʼil yāsīn.
  • تذكير الناس في فضائل ياسين.
OCLC
1374076338
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