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Subject(s)

• Sufism—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205H(1). [Browse]

Summary note

Portion of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title also appears on the lower edge (illegible). Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʼ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 [1110], the other 906? [1501?], signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Inscription in another hand on fol. 94 b (ḥadīth).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 94 ; 1¹⁶ ( -1, following fol. 15) 2¹⁶ ( -1, before fol. 16) 3-6¹⁶ ; quires numbered using Arabic ordinals from the third quire (numbered "al-rābiʻ") to the sixth quire (numbered "al-sābiʻ"), not visible on the fifth quire (fol. 63a) ; each juzʼ corresponds to a quire, except juzʼ 2 which comprises two quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20 lines per page.
• Description: Written in a very casual medium small script using black ink. The entries and parts of the text are written in a larger script ; some vowel signs.
• Paper: Dark cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible.
• Incipit: بسم ... قال الشيخ الامام الحمد للّه اخبرنا الشيخ ابو علي الحسن بن احمد بن الحسن بن الحداد المقدسي (؟) قراه عليه من كتبه وسماعه من ابو نعيم ... ... بن اسحاق قال وثاني القوم الفاروق ذو المقام الثابت المانوق.
• Explicit: عن سعيد بن عامر مُسْنداً مُخْتصَراً آخر الجز ... يتلوه ... في الجزء الذي يليه ومنهم عُميْر بن سعد ... وحده.
• The last leaf of the first quire and the first leaf of the second quire are missing (between fol. 15 and 16). The portion of text lost corresponds to Ed. Cairo (1932), p. 70, l. 24 - p. 73, l. 11: حدثنا ابو الربيع قال حدثنا حماد قال احدثنا] ... [شيء من خلقه انتفاع.

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboards, with blue paper pasted on the upper and lower covers and the envelope flap.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-30b: al-Juzʼ al-thānī (entries no. 2 to 11).
• 2. fol. 31a-46b: al-Juzʼ al-thālith (entries no. 12 to 21).
• 3. fol. 47a-62a: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (entries no. 22 to 27).
• 4. fol. 63a-78a: al-Juzʼ al-khāmis (entries no. 28 to 34).
• 5. fol. 79a-94a: al-Juzʼ al-sādis (entries no. 35 to 37).

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Provenance

Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʾ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 [1110], the other 906? [1501?], signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

• Purchase ; Brill ; 1900.
• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 669

Other format(s)

• Also available in microfilm.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ
• حلية الاولياء

OCLC

67616649

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