Label on upper cover: "ZK 2". Colophon repeated on folio 268b. Inscription on verso of folio with beginning of text dated 1243.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +269 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (hats; roman-alphabet letters "FV", "Al Mazzo", and "Al Terazzo"; bull's head? with "FB"; coat-of-arms? with "GB"; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 15 Jumādá al-Awwal 1224 by Mullā Muḥammad al-Qalʻawī ibn Mullā Ismāʻīl in Baghdād (fol. 268a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله جاعل الصلوة عماد الدين وعتاد المتقين ... وبعد فان العبادة اولا ما صرفت فيه نفايس الاوقات وبذلت فيه جواهر الانفاس والحركات والسكنات ...
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تسويدها في شهرجمادى الاول في اليوم الخامس عشر يوم الخميس بين الصلاتين في سنة الف ومائتين واربع وعشرين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلام على يد الفقيرالى الله الغني ملا محمد بن ملا اسماعيل خطيب قلعة بغداد دار السلام غفرالله له ولوالديه امين
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands. Spine replaced.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1752.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 228.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 766.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Place name(s)
Iraq Baghdad
OCLC
1340425667
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