Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1037H

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DS ID:

DS29242

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1037H

Title:

Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ al-Ḥikam / / هذا كتاب شرح الحكم /

Author:

Ibn Zaghdān, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1417 or 1418-1477 or 1478 / ابن زغدان، محمد بن احمد، 1417 or 1418-1477 or 1478

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Zaghdān WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Salṭī, Muḥyī al-Dīn, -approximately 1692 / سلطي، محيي الدين، -approximately 1692

Muḥyī al-Dīn Salṭī WIKIDATA

Date:

1663

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 201 leaves : paper ; 208 x 144 (152 x 84) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Short inscriptions on inside of upper cover and fol. 1a, a short text on fol. 200b and some poetry in Ottoman on fol. 201b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 196 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated.
Decoration: Simple headpiece of red and black lines. Opening spread frame-ruled with multiple, alternating red and black lines (fol. 1b-2a).
Origin: Copied by Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Salṭī and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1074 (1663) -- colophon (fol. 196b).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Early works

Ḥikam al-ʻAṭāʼīyah (Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad)

New Jersey--Princeton

Sufism--Doctrines

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sufis

Conduct of life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952958543506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c39a48f-e58a-4ff1-915f-798d213e0981/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University