Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1108H

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DS ID:

DS29288

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1108H

Title:

Kitāb Kawkab al-fajr fī sharḥ Ḥizb al-baḥr / / كتاب كوكب الفجر في شرح حزب البحر /

Author:

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 / ابن العربي، 1165-1240

Ibn Arabi WIKIDATA

Date:

13--?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 57 leaves : paper ; 168 x 128 (130 x 86) mm. bound to 168 x 130 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Ms. additions: short inscriptions on fol. iiia-b, chiefly prayers and invocations; a fairly long inscription on the author below the title on fol. 1a; text of Ḥizb al-baḥr in a later hand on fol. 52b-53b; fol. 54a-57b are a later addition on different paper (from another ms?; the paper is of poorer quality and due to damage the text on these fol. is much less legible), and contain a short text...
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 57 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; glazed cream paper with prominent pulp in two shades, one almost orange.
Origin: Text is undated, but the style and paper suggest an early date, 14th or possibly even 13th century.
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Cloth bindings

Prayers and devotions

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Sufism--Doctrines

Sufism

Shādhilīyah

Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258. Ḥizb al-baḥr

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952991173506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46f95835-d72c-483c-b324-c43d4968a1f6/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University