Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2758Y

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DS ID:

DS29740

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2758Y

Title:

Risālah fī ḥaqq al-iḥtirāz ʻan al-wabāʼ / رسالة في حق الاحتراز عن الوباء

Author:

İdrîs Bitlîsî, -1520

Idris Bitlisi WIKIDATA

Date:

1779

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 23 leaves: paper ; 205 x 120 (148 x 60) mm. bound to 205 x 120 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a. The name of the author appears in a rubric at the head of the text (fol. 1b) and in the preamble (fol. 1b-2a).
Incipit: يا حيّا لا يموت ويا قويا فى الملك والملكوت الى لطفك الرغبوت ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف المتوكل على ربّه اللطيف ... [2أ] ... ادريس بن حسام الدين البدليسى اصلح الله اعماله ... انه لما وفقنى التوفيق الزمانى وساعدمى العون الصمدانى
Explicit: انا نعوذ بك من الطعن و الطاعون والوبآء وهجوم البلاء ... يا عون الضعفاء المظلمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and overlining. The text is framed within a single red line. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible ; fiber visible on surface. Fol. 23 is a later added flyleaf left blank.
Collation: Paper, fol. 23 ; 110 212 (+1, fol. 23) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 121". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 707".
Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1193 [March-April 1779] by Muḥammad Naẓīf.
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Plague--Religious aspects--Islam

Plague

Egypt--Cairo

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952347663506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/83ec295c-71a3-4d29-abde-c6d615527ede/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University