Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 640

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DS ID:

DS29560

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 640

Title:

Kitāb Hidāyat al-akyās ilá ʻirfān asrār Lubb al-asās / كتاب هداية الاكياس الى عرفان اسرار لب الاساس

Author:

Ẓafīrī, Jaʻfar ibn ʻAlī, d. 1697 or 8 / ظفيري، جعفر بن علي، d. 1697 or 8

Date:

1697

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 249, ii leaves : paper ; 206 x 151 (152 x 95) mm. bound to 214 x 170 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Zabārah, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1883-1961 / زبارة، محمد بن محمد، 1883-1961

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Zabārah WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Ms. was possibly previously bound with Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 639, Lubb al-asās, as suggested by the paper and the water stains. According to the owner's statement on fol. 2b: "Ṣāra hādhā al-mujallad fī yad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabarah fī Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1359," while a similar inscription on fol. 1a of Third Series no. 639 states: "Ṣārat hādhihi al-nuskhah min Lubb...
Physical description: 19-20 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on beige European glazed, laid paper. Catchwords and extensive marginalia; original text in red, except on fol. 242-248 where it is overlined in black. Some damp staining, but text unaffected. Insert between fol. 91-92.
Origin: First half of text completed in Shaʻbān 1089 AH (September-October 1678); second half completed in Rabiʻ al-Awwal 1090 AH (April-May 1679). This copy completed by Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ... al-Muṭahhar in Shawwāl 1108 AH (April-May 1697) (fol. 248b).
Numerous statements of ownership on fol. 2b, dated 1132 H. [1719 or 20], 1192 H. [1778 or 9], 1214 H. [1799 or 1800], 1241 H. [1825 or 6]. Most recent ownership statement by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabārah (d. 1961) dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1359 H. [May 1940].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Muʼayyad Billāh, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 1634 or 1635-1686. Lubb al-Asās

Zaydīyah--Doctrines

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951667383506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c3804a78-c414-4a33-820c-7866ccd77449/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University