Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205H(1).

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2325

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205H(1).

Title:

Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ.

Date:

14th-15th century

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 208 x 162 (155 to 160 x 134) mm. bound to 210 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title also appears on the lower edge (illegible). Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʼ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 1110, the other 906? 1501?, signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Inscription in another hand on fol. 94 b (ḥadīth).
Collation: Paper, fol. 94 ; 1¹⁶ ( -1, following fol. 15) 2¹⁶ ( -1, before fol. 16) 3-6¹⁶ ; quires numbered using Arabic ordinals from the third quire (numbered "al-rābiʻ") to the sixth quire (numbered "al-sābiʻ"), not visible on the fifth quire (fol. 63a) ; each juzʼ corresponds to a quire, except juzʼ 2 which comprises two quires ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: Written in a very casual medium small script using black ink. The entries and parts of the text are written in a larger script ; some vowel signs.
Paper: Dark cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible.
Two audition statements at the beginning and the end of most juzʾ, one dated Rabīʻ 504 1110, the other 906? 1501?, signed by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Ghālib al-Dimashqī. Ownership statements and inscriptions on the front cover. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

Biographies

Early works

Sufism

Muslim saints

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947079353506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d411094-161b-4f48-b2c7-967f87ff515e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University