Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1041H

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DS ID:

DS29247

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1041H

Title:

Kitāb al-alfī / / كتاب الالفي /

Author:

Raḍī al-Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1457 or 1458-1528 or 1529 / رضي الغزي، محمد بن محمد، 1457 or 1458-1528 or 1529

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Raḍī al-Ghazzī WIKIDATA

Date:

1577 or 1578

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 45 leaves : paper ; 178 x 132 (125 x 80) mm bound to 178 x 138 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Two short inscriptions on fol. 1a. Added title at the head of fol. 2a: Alfīyah fī al-taṣawwuf lil-Ghazzī, and at the bottom of the same fol. in the same hand: "wa-maʻhā min Sharh ʻaqāʼid al-Nasafī" [?]. Two obliterated ownership statements on fol. 2a. Title "Alfīyah" written in black ink on upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 45 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; written in an elegant medium small vocalized script ; glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent pulp.
Origin: Copied by Bāqī Samarqandī in 985 (1577-8) -- colophon (fol. 44b).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sufism--Doctrines

Dervishes

Conduct of life

Sufism--Customs and practices

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952977723506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3601d7cb-9ef0-4cfa-b5de-7bd7cc41caef/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University