Details

Subject(s)

• Solitude—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1012 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A treatise on the significance of solitude at certain times, based on traditions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes; marginal summaries. On folio 19a-b a question and response beginning "qāla al-Nawawī fī sharḥ Muslim fī al-kalām ʻalá ḥadīth al-marʼah al-khathʻamīyah ..."
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 ; collation note ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red or black.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هو الله الحمد لله الذى اوضح على لسان رسوله ... وبعد فهذا مختصر مفيد في بيان مرجحات في بعض الاوقات والازمان ...
• Colophon: والله سبحانه اعلم انتهى ولله الحمد اولا واخرًا

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed design.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Amīr, Yaḥyá[?] ibn ʻAlī al-Daylamī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1497.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب في ترجيح العزلة

Title from label on cover

• Kitāb fī Tarjīḥ al-ʻuzlah

OCLC

1340421330

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