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Subject(s)

• Aḥmad ibn Qāsim 1813 or 1814-approximately 1856 or 1857—Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn [Browse]
• Islamic calendar [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Khalwatī, Aḥmad Muṣṭafá Aḥmad, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• خلوتي، احمد مصطفى احمد، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 514H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn, a poem in forty-eight verses on the calendar, by the same author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Stated in colophon that work was composed 1273 [1856/7].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 + (2) + i, fol. 58 also labeled (1) ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overwriting, vowel signs and verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, cursive roman-alphabet writing "Andrea [Galvani], Pord[enone]") ; MS in good condition, some worm damage along spine edge.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 23 Rabīʻ I 1288 by Aḥmad Muṣṭafá Aḥmad al-Azʹharī al-Khalwatī al-Aḥmadī al-Shādhilī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 57b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله محدد الاوقات والايام والمجدد المشهور والاعوام ... اما بعد فقد امرني بعض السادات ان اشرح منظومتي ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابتها 23 من شهر ربيع الاولى سنة 1288 على يد کاتبها الفقير الى مولاه الوفي السيد احمد مصطفى احمد الازهري الخلوتي الاحمدي الشاذلي طريقة الحنفي مذهبًا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين امين. تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and blue marbled paper.

Provenance

Signature of Surūr Shiḥātah al-Bakhshūnjī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1010.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424796

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