Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4263Y

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DS ID:

DS28238

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4263Y

Title:

Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-ṣafāʼ wa-khillān al-wafāʼ / رسائل اخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء

Rasāʼil

Author:

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ / اخوان الصفاء

Brethren of Purity WIKIDATA

Place:

Damascus?

Damascus TGN

Date:

1551

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 147 leaves : paper ; 184 x 135 (133 x 90) mm. bound to 187 x 144 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
31 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with pulp and chain? lines visible. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1b. Title written on the lower edge of the text block (hardly legible). Threat to mark the page on fol. 127.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥikmah 20". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 66".
Copied by Abū al-Ṣidq Abū Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn? ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-ḥakīm al-Bakrī al-Dhabāḥ al-Maqdisī al-Qādirī al-Ḥanbalī, khaṭīb bi-Jāmiʻ [...?] Masjid al-Qadam [in Damascus] (colophon Risālah 3, fol. 35a and Risālah 12, fol. 113b). al-Risālah al-thālithah copied on 1 Jumādá al-Ākhar 958 (see fol. 35a). al-Risālah al-thāniyah ʻashar copied on Saturday 17...
Four ownership statements dated Rajab 1060 [1650] to Rajab 1192 [1778] on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sixteenth century

Islam--Doctrines

Early works

Encyclopedists

Islamic Empire

New Jersey--Princeton

Science, Medieval

Islamic philosophy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949417723506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6a01746c-1628-4af9-953f-ffac02316a29/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University