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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ghayṭī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1504 or 1505-1573 or 1574—Qiṣṣat al-Miʻrāj [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

Dunūshahrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad [Browse]

Related name

• دنوشهري، محمد بن احمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 242H [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the work of Najm al-Dīn al-Ghayṭī, 981 [1573] on the Night Journey and the Ascension of the Prophet entitled Qiṣṣat al-miʻrāj.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 69 ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-7 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crest) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes. After the colophon is a verse of poetry.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied end of Shawwāl 1071 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dunūsharī al-Azharī (fol. 69a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: ثم المعراج المبارك بحمد الله وعونه ومزيد حسن توفيقه وبلغ مقابلة وتصحيحا على نسخة مؤلفه رحمه الله تعالى وذلك على يد کاتبه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله من بعده العبد الفقير المعترف بمزيد العجز والتقصير محمد بن الفقير احمد بن الفقير محمد الدنوشري الازهري غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن احسن اليهم واليه ولجميع محبيه واقار به وذويه تحريرا في اواخر شوال سنة احدى وسبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم امين امين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله المان على عباده بنعم لاتحصى

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 664.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• تعليق لطيف على کل من الاسراء والمعراج المنيف
• Sharḥ ʻalá qiṣṣat al-miʻrāj lil-Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Ghayṭī
• شرح على قصة المعراج للشيخ نجم الدين الغيطي

Title from text (fol. 1b)

Tāʻlīq laṭīf ʻalá kull min al-isrāʼ wa-al-miʻrāj al-munīf

OCLC

1294313610

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