Details

Subject(s)

• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—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. 1098H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• magic squares [Browse]

Summary note

A work of exhortation for a religious and moral life.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses. The name of the author appears as Ḥarīmī on folio 77b. Magic squares on fol. 115. Inscriptions and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Fol. 117a-118b has extracts on prayer and religious behavior.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 118 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 29 leaves per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness. Folio 1 defective.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحنم رب يسرو عن سبحان الله وبحمده منتهى علمه العميم وسبحان الله العظيم مبلغ رضاه القسيم وملاء الميزان وزنة العرش العظيم
• Colophon: ولا ختم الکتاب بدعاء نافع ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما دائما ابدا ورضي الله عن اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين

Binding note

Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Provenance

Several obscured ownership signatures and one seal impression on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1938.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420972

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