Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1054H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A work on moral, religious and ceremonial matters modeled after Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn of al-Ghazzālī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 323 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Some vowel signs ; MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and defective; final folio badly damaged.
• Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر ... الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم الملك القدوس ...
• Colophon: ...وکتب ذلك الکتاب المبارك

Binding note

Later? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled lines crossing the covers and along edges. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1483.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1420386424

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