Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 24H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166. Poems. Selections. [Browse]
• عبد القادر الجيلاني، -1166. شعر مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

Short work about ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī containing selections from his poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Immediately after the colophon is a prayer in nine verses of poetry. Six following folios contain an ode by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; a few verses of wisdom, three of which are by al-Afwah, a noted pre-Islamic poet; a genealogy of the author carried back to Adam; still another genealogy of the authorʼs maternal ancestry; three short poems on Ṣūfī love and three prayers in prose.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 14 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; some folios lightly tinted ; MS in fair condition; folios 1 and 4 are foxed and mended with gauze with some loss of legibility.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad Ṣadaqah ibn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻĀdilī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī (fol. 9a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي جعل اشعار الاخيار حکما ... اما بعد فانه لما ظهرت خرقتي في البلاد
• Colophon: وکتبه راجي الله تعالى ابوالفتح محمد صدقه بن عمر بن محمد بن محمد العادلي الشافعي القادري عفا الله عنه. کتب بتاريخ سنة ... للهجرة

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark brown spotted paper. Previous covering of stiffened yellow paper bound inside the current binding.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 40.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424437

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