- Nuskhat al-sijill alladhī wujida muʻallaqan ʻalá al-mashāhid fī ghaybat mawlānā al-imām al-Ḥakīm ... [etc.].
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4351Y
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 126 leaves: paper ; 170 x 128 (125 x 95) mm. bound to 170 x 135 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from first text (fol. 2b).
- Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, important words and text-stops. Dark cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible. On fol. 1b-2a, 23b-24a, and 125a-126b, short texts in another hand than the main text, partly cut off on the edges. Fol. missing between fol. 93 and 94. Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a, including ownership statements.
- Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 390".
- Publisher:
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- [ 15--?]
- Subject:
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- Druzes—Sacred books
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Title sort:
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- Nuskhat al-sijill alladhī wujida muʻallaqan ʻalá al-mashāhid fī ghaybat mawlānā al-imām al-Ḥakīm ... [etc.].
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Central stamped mandorla with an outer border consisting of a running pattern of impressions of a square stamp. Paper pastedown (marbled paper on lower cover). Traces of a now wanting fore-edge flap. Rebacked.
- Provenance:
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- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Mach, R. Yahuda, 5272
- Sylvestre de Sacy. Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838), vol. 1, p. cccclxv-dxvii, no. I-XIV.
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- 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z/1699-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Date:
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- 1500-1699
- Abstract:
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- Collection of fourteen texts of the Druze community, being the first part of their sacred texts (see end of vol., fol. 115a). It comprises texts 1-14 in Sylvestre de Sacy's description in Exposé de la religion des Druzes (1838), vol. 1, p. cccclxv-dxvii. The end of text 12 and the beginning of text 13 are wanting.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/nk322g96w
- Location:
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- HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4351Y
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4351Y
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Sacred books
- Uniform title:
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- Nuskhat al-sijill alladhī wujida muʻallaqan ʻalá al-mashāhid fī ghaybat mawlānā al-imām al-Ḥakīm
- نسخة السجل الذي وجد معلقا على المشاهد في غيبة مولانا الامام الحكيم
- Contents:
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- 1. fol. 1b-2a: Dhikr maʻrifat al-thalāthīn ḥadd -- [Other hand].
- 2. fol. 2b-10b: Nuskhat al-sijill alladhī wujida muʻallaqan ʻalá al-mashāhid fī ghaybat mawlānā al-imām al-Ḥakīm.
- 3. fol. 11a-12b: al-Sijill al-manhī fīhi ʻan al-khamr.
- 4. fol. 12b-22b: Khabar al-Yahūd wa-al-Naṣārá.
- 5. fol. 22b-23a: Nuskhat mā katabahu al-Qarmaṭī.
- 6. fol. 23b-24a: [Short text mentioning the names of several dignitaries of the Druzes fī waqt al-kashf, fī waqt al-islām, etc.] -- [Other hand, partly cut off].
- 7. fol. 24b-25b: Mīthāq Wālī al-zamān.
- 8. fol. 25b-26a: Dhikr al-maqāmāt al-ilāhīyah wa-al-kashafāt al-rabbānīyah -- [Other hand, partly cut off].
- 8. fol. 26b-41a: al-Naqḍ al-khafī.
- 9. fol. 41b-47a: Badw al-tawḥīd li-daʻwat al-Ḥaqq.
- 10. fol. 47a-51b: Mīthāq al-Nisāʼ.
- 11. fol. 51b-62a: Risālat al-Balāgh wa-al-nihāyah fī al-tawḥīd ilá kāfat al-muwaḥḥidīn al-mutabarriyīn min al-talḥīd.
- 12. fol. 62b-76b: al-Ghāyah wa-al-naṣīḥah.
- 13. fol. 76b-91a: Kitāb fīhi ḥaqāʼiq mā yaẓharu quddām Mawlānā jalla dhikruhu min al-hazl.
- 14. fol. 91a-93b: al-Sīrah al-mustaqīmah -- [incomplete at end].
- 15. fol. 94a-109a: [Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq] -- [incomplete at beginning].
- 16. fol. 109b-125a: Sabab al-asbāb wa-kunz li-man ayqana wa-istajāba.
- 17. fol. 125a-126b: [Short text on Asmāʼ Ḥudūd al-Ḥaqq] -- [Other hand, partly cut off].
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