Author
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj `Abd al-Raḥmān ibn `Alī, approximately 1116-1201
Author Original
Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201, ابن الجوزي، ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي
Publication Date
1336
Publication Place
-
Damascus, [1336 or 1337]
Subject
Sufis—Biography—History—12th century—Sources, Muslim saints—Biography—History—12th century—Sources, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Type
Book
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9954641743506421
Record ID
vt150m864
Library Location
HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1337Y, HSVM Electronic Resource, ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1337Y, ELF1 Electronic Resource
Date
1336-01-01T00:00:00Z — 1336
Notes
Part 7 of Ṣifat al-ṣafwah, a biographical dictionary, based on Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣfahānī (d. 430/1038). The copy comprises the text from ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī al-ʻAnbarī in the Ṭabaqat 7 of the people of Baṣrá to ʻAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zakarīyāʾ in the Ṭabaqat 3 of the people of al-Shām. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 2a)., Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink ; larger script in black ink for headings ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with a few chain and laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf, with an ownership statement, and a note mentioning a price. Title on tail of text block., Collation: Paper, fol. i, 168, i ; i (free endpaper) i (added fly-leaf wiith inscriptions; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1¹⁰ (-2 at beginning of quire) 2-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰ (-2 at end of quire) i (added fly-leaf; fol. 168 in the modern foliation) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thāniyat al-sābiʻ" (see fol. 10a)., Inscription in Arabic script in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Thālith [next line] Raqm 123 min kutub Ḥamdī al-thālithah"., Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī al-Shāfiʻī, from Damascus, for himself in 737 (fol. 167b)., Copyist: Jazarī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad., Incipit: بسم ... لا اله الا الله عدة للقايه ومن الطبقة السابعة من اهل البصرة عبد الرحمن بن مهدي يكنى ابا سعيد العنبري ويقال هو مولى للازد وولد في سنة خمسة وثلثين وماية, Explicit: وتوفى سنة سبع عشرة وماية اخر الجزء السابع من كتاب صفة الصفوة ويتلوه ان شا الله تعالى فى اول الجزء الثامن ومن الطبقت الرابعة من اهل دمشق | Ownership statement in the name of "Muṣṭafá al-Ṣaḥḥāf bi-Dimashq al-Shām", dated 1087 H., followed by a note on the owner, dated end of Shaʻbān 1106 (fol. 1a). Four ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-ʻAbbāsī al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī, dated 934 H. ; of Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥiṣnī, dated 1090 H.(?) ; of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻImādī, dated 11--? H. ; of Muḥammad ibn Khālid ibn Khalīl al-Azharī(?) al-Ḥusaynī al-Lādhiqī, dated Mawṣil 1316 H. (wih seal). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. | Mach, R. Yahuda, 4687, Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 362 (1/1. Auszug) ; SI
