Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 140Y

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DS ID:

DS28310

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 140Y

Title:

Kitab-i Şerh-i Fusus-i Kaysarî / كتاب شرح فصوص قيصري

Sufi metaphysics

Author:

Qayṣarī, Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd, -1350 or 1351 / قيصري، داوود بن محمود

Dawūd al-Qayṣarī WIKIDATA

Date:

1488

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 293 leaves : paper ; 256 x 180 (173 x 118) mm. bound to 260 x 186 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title (in Ottoman) from fol. 1b.
The copying was completed on the 7th of Ramaḍān 893 (1488) -- colophon (fol. 292a). Collation note on the margin of the same fol. partially missing due to paper damage: collation completed on the 3rd of Jumādá al-Ūlá [...]89, probably 989 (1581) by ... Muḥammad Shafīʻ.
21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text within a frame outlined in black ink filled with gold leaf and blue ink around it. Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b made with gold leaf and blue, orange and yellow watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some collation annotations in the margins throughout. Foliation in Western numerals...
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fifteenth century

Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (Ibn al-ʻArabī)

New Jersey--Princeton

God (Islam)

God--Wisdom

Early works

Islamic philosophy

Sufism--Doctrines

Metaphysics

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950242973506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df5dde86-c8af-4709-bfe3-13129cf0b2ca/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University