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Subject(s)

• Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Intellectual life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Manūfī, ʻĀmir Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• منوفي، عامر محمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 797H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of the ijāzahs of al-Damanhūrī from his professors.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon is a note of collation.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 42 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later flyleaf only: coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet letters "EV" topped with crescents; text: roman-alphabet lettering "..GR..ET") ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece with red, blue, black and gold (fol. 1b).
• Origin: Probably from latter part of the XVIIIth century. Written by ʻĀmir[?] Muḥammad al-Manūfī al-Shāfiʻī al-Izmīrī.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي حمدا لمن حلانا بحسن الاتباع ... هذا ما التمس مني بعض الافاضل الماهرين ...
• Colophon: انتهت اجازة شيخنا الهشتوکي و قد اعرضت عن ذکر اجازات اخرى يطول جلبها وفي هذا القدر کفاية و الله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه و سلم على يد کاتبه الفقير على محمد المنوفي الشافعي الازهري غفر الله له و لوالديه امين امين امين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Flap covered with paper of a different design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2201.
• Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 26.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Laṭāʼif al-nūrīyah fī al-minaḥ al-Damanhūrīyah
• لطائف النورية في المنح الدمنهورية

OCLC

1340422878

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