Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1788Y

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DS ID:

DS29689

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1788Y

Title:

Kitāb Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʼ / / كتاب حلية الاولياء وطبقات الاصفياء /

Author:

Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038 / ابو نعيم الاصبهاني، احمد بن عبد الله

Abu Nu`aym WIKIDATA

Place:

Mecca

Mecca TGN

Date:

1171

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 378 leaves : paper ; 252 x 164 (199 x 124) mm. bound to 260 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of juzʼ 64 (fol. 17a).
31 lines per page. Written in medium small script in black ink, with use of red for some punctuation and decoration of verses and re-inking of headings. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The no. of the entry is written in red ink in the margin. Collation notes (collation statement on fol. 378a, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 566 H. [1171]). End and beginning of parts (juzʼ) indicated on fol...
On last fol. (fol. 378b): two reading certificates (samāʻ and ijāzah) for several persons, signed by Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, the first dated Aleppo, 11 Rajab 624 H. [1227].
Copied in Mecca at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 566 (colophon, fol. 378a).
Ownership statements on the pastedown of the lower cover, dated 953 H. [1546] and 975 H. [1567]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Saudi Arabia--Mecca

Twelfth century

Muslim saints

Biographies

Early works

Sufis

Sufism

Biography

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947468023506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cbb3bf0f-ceaa-4383-9af2-172cc573484d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University