مجالس الابرار ومسالك الاخيار

Majālis al-abrār wa-masālik al-akhyār wa-maḥāʼiq al-bidaʻ wa-maqāmiʻ al-ashrār.

Author
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Constantinople, [ 1657]
Description
i, 309, i leaves: paper ; 202 x 145 (153 x 89) mm. bound to 202 x 160 mm.

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Summary note
One hundred traditions from the Maṣābīḥ al-sunnah by al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd al-Baghawī (d. 516/1122), with paraenetic commentary (see the table of contents in the preamble, fol. 2a-4b).
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from preamble (fol. 2a, l. 7).
  • Incipit: الحمد لله الذى رفع اقدار العلماء بمقدار معرفى كتابه المحكم
  • Explicit: قد سبق ذكره فى مجلس الثامن والتسعون فى بيان تحقيق قوله ع م استوصوا بالنساء خيرا الخ من اذ قد قال الفقهاء يجب على الرجل تفقه زوجته الى اخر المجلس والله اعلم بالصواب
  • Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه الشريفة فى يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله اللطيف فى آخر رمضان المبارك ... سنة سبع وستين والف قد وقع الفراغ من هذه النسخة الشريفة فى يوم چهار شنبه من اثنى وعشرين من رمضان فى مدرسة مراد باشائ عتيق فى بلدة قسطنطنية فى يد عبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف عبد الوهاب(؟) بن --مور بن حبيب تمت
  • Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq, in black ink with use of red for headings. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper with watermark. Occasional maginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text. First fol. of the text damaged, with loss of text. The first and last fol. of the copy (fol. 1 and 308 in the modern foliation in pencil) are re-used leaves, with the beginning of a text (on iṣtilāḥ ahl al-ḥadīth on fol. 1b ; on al-Risālah fī al-manṭiq by Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī on fol. 308a).
  • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 131". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1059".
  • Origin: Copy completed in Qusṭanṭinīyah, Madrasat Murād Pāshā-yi ʻatīq, on 22 Ramaḍān 1067 [July 4, 1657] by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb(?) ibn --mūr ibn Ḥabīb (colophon, fol. 307a, followed by verses of poetry).
Binding note
Dark blue paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Brown leather spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.
Provenance
Waqf statement in the name of Khamīrah bint Aḥmad on fol. 307b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 631
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 364 (6/1. Cmtre f) ; SI
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Other title(s)
  • كتاب مجالس شريفة ومواعظ نفيسة لرومي افندى
  • Majālis sharīfah wa-mawāʻiẓ nafīsah
  • مجالس شريفة ومواعظ نفيسة
Title in rubric on fol. 1b
  • Kitāb Majālis sharīfah wa-mawāʻiẓ nafīsah li-Rūmī Efendi
OCLC
144586631
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