تحفة الاصفيا بمناقب الاوليا ... [الخ.]

Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ bi-manāqib al-awliyāʼ ... [etc.].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Rabīʻ I 1024- Rabīʻ I 1025 [April 1615-April 1616]
Description
68 leaves : paper ; 198 x 146 (140 x 80) mm bound to 199 x 146 mm.

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    Summary note
    Autograph copy of a biographical dictionary of Muslim saints and their virtues, arranged in alphabetical order of their names. Followed by a biographical dictionary of the lives of 36 eminent Ṣūfīs who lived in the 11th century Hijri arranged according to the alphabetical order of their names.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Marginal notes and glosses. Title page of Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ has a statement that the MS is in the author's hand, obscured ownership statements, and other additions. Table of contents runs from the title page to fol. 3a. Preceding the start of the second text (fol. 56b-57a) is a table of contents and three additional names taken from the Ṭabaqāt of al-Shurnūbị, 931-994 [1524/5-1585/6]. Fol. 68a carries several inscriptions. Insert describes MS.
    • 1. fol. 1a-56a: Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ bi-manāqib al-awliyāʼ / ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn al-Munāwī al-Ḥaddādī.
    • 2. fol. 56b-67a: Ṭabaqah fī tarājim al-sādah al-Ṣūfīyah al-mawjūdīn fī al-qarn al-ḥādī ʻashar.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 68 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 23 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "RA", circular design) ; MS in good condition.
    • Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (fol. 3b). Fol. 3b and 4a have gilt frame. Gilt design on edges of text block.
    • Origin: [Tuḥfat al-aṣfiyāʼ] Copied in the middle of the third month [Rabīʻ I] of 1024 (fol. 56a) -- [Ṭabaqah fī tarājim] Copied end of Rabīʻ I 1025 (fol. 67a).
    • Incipit: [تحفة الاصفية] الحمد لله الذي رفع الذين اوتوا العلم درجات -- [طبقة في تراجم] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل المصطفى خاتم اوليائه
    • Colophon: [تحفة الاصفية] تم تحفة الاصفياء بمناقب الاولياء في العشر الاوسط من الشهر الثالث من السنة الرابعة بعد الف وعشرين. کتاب کتبه تاج الدين المناوي -- [طبقة في تراجم] وتم الکتاب وکان الفراغ من تعليقه في اواخر ربيع الاول سنة 1025
    Binding note
    Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and green embossed paper. Violet pastedowns and flyleaves.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 707, 708.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1292700312
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