Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī -1166—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Suyūṭī, Muḥammad, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• سيوطي، محمد، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 255H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī 471-561 [1078/9-1165/6].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 255 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-23 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 7 Shaʻbān 12[6?]7 by Muḥammad al-Suyūṭī (fol. 225b).
• Title from text (fol. 2b).
• Colophon: کاتبه الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد السيوطي غفر الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين امين. وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا الکتاب يوم الخميس المبارك 7 خلت من شعبان المکرم سنة 1267
• Incipit: بسم الله ... يقول العبد الفقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue marbled paper. Cover worm-eaten and spine fragile.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 335.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 113.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 565.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 703.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1295014192

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