Details

Subject(s)

• Mahdi—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. 1006H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the Mahdī and on his coming at the end of time.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. The work was composed in al-Azhar University, Cairo, 1022 [1613].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; 2 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, coat-of-arms) ; MS in good condition. Rare.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمالك الملك ... وبعد فيقول ... المقدسى الحنبلي هذه فوائد تسرّ المحبين وفرائد تسيء ...
• Colophon: على يد اسيرالشهاوي وعبد الدواعي مواصل الزلّة وقاطع الهمة فقير الله والمتحسّر الاواه محمد بن عمر بن محمد ابن چلبي بن زيدان ابن محمود العدوي بلداً الصعيدي اقليما المالکي مذهبا السماني مشربا الخلوتي اعتقادا وسندا عفي [عفا] الله عنه بمنّه وانا له آماله بحسن ظنّه ورضي عن مشايخه واسکنه صحبتهم فسيح جنته [و]دار کرامته مع النظر لوجهه الکريم انه البر الرحيم على ما يشاء قديروالله ولي التوفيق. آمين تم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Signature of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1527.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424914

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