Details

Subject(s)

• Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh approximately 1196-1258 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Shādhilīyah—Biography [Browse]
• Sufis—Egypt—Biography [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 258H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī, 656 [1258], the great Ṣūfī and the founder of the religious order of the Shādhilīyah, together with recital of his excellences, miracles and prayers.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. Following the colophon is a brief genealogy of al-Shādhilī. The folio after the colophon has a prayer to prevent one from decaying in one's tomb.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 155 + i (labelled "(156)") ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG", three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم تقييد بعض ما لسيدنا ومولانا وصفوة الابرار سيدي ابا [ابي] الحسن علي بن عبد الجبار المعروف بالشاذلي تأليف الامام العالم العلامة محمد بن ابي القاسم المعروف بابن الصباغ رحمهم الله تعالى ورضي عنهم ونفعنا بهم في الدارين امين امين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله ... يقول العبد الفقير ... محمد بن ابي القاسم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-stamped design in black and reddish-tan.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 804.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 199.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 719.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1295022377

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