Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 348L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Contains

• Jāmī, 1414-1492. Silsilat al-z̲ahab. [Browse]
• جامى، 1414-1492. سلسلة الذهب. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Arabic poems and prayers and Persian texts on Sufism.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Collective title from text 3, leaf 57b.
• On front cover, label reading "282 KE".
• Layout: Varying lines per page ; Silsilat al-z̲ahab written in two colums.
• Description: Written in a variety of scripts in black by different hands on laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Text 3 has some crossouts. Leaves 1-9 are detached. Extensive damp staining, a few paper repairs, and some creasing. In fair condition.
• Explicit (text 2): ذکر گو ذکر تا ترا جان است * زندگى دل بذکر ىزدان است ... [؟] ز ذکر بذکر ذکر خفيه که گفته اند اىنست تمت

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, and fillets.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-18b: [Poems, prayers, and extracts in Arabic]. Excised from several different manuscripts.
• 2. fol. 19a-57a: [Persian treatise on Sufism]. Unidentified; incomplete at beginning.
• 3. fol. 58a-104b: Silsilat al-z̲ahab / [Jāmī]. Sufi poem on Naqshabandi doxology, part of the Haft awrang. Incomplete at beginning.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

Persian treatise on Sufism.

OCLC

842384987

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