Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

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

Summary note

Parts IV-XI of Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʼ, a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints, as transmitted by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaddād.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. MS contains eight parts. In the colophon the copyist states that it is the conclusion of the 11th part. Accordingly MS begins with the 4th part. Fol. 1a has a reading statement dated 997 [1588/9] and a list of names inclued in the first part of the text in a later hand.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 181 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Colophon: اخر الجزء من الاصل وبتمامه تم الجزء الحادي عشر من الکتاب والحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم تسليما
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله ... اخبرنا الشيخ

Binding note

Unbound.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 672.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292695374

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