Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Majmūʻah.
[مجموعة]

Authors

• Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
  سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف،
• Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
  سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف،
• Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century
  اوجلي، محمد الصالح بن سليم،
• Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century
  اوجلي، محمد الصالح بن سليم،
• Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century
  اوجلي، محمد الصالح بن سليم،
• Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
  سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 35
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508421
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111687023
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_035.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508421

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Place

West Africa?

Summary

Group of several texts related to Islamic theological doctrine, mostly by or referencing Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī or Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ al-Awjalī; largely incomplete. The seventh work, by al-Awjalī, is incomplete and out of order. Contains some scribal errors and abbreviations which have been corrected or clarified by a later reader. Some texts contain extensive interlinear insertions, particularly the end of the 2nd work and the entire 7th work.The pages are loose leaves wrapped in a hide folder.

Notes

• Ms. leaves.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit of work 3: wa-baʻd fa-al-maqṣūd bi-al-niẓām sabk jawāḥiran min al-kalām wa-dh[āl]ika mā yadkhulu taḥta qawl al-shahādah (f. 31v-32r)
   
• Incipit of work 4: aʻlamu annā wajadnā min anwāʻ al-kufr al-mujmaʻ ʻalayhi faḍlan ʻan al-mukhtalif fīhi al-ṭalbah wa-al-ʻāmmah wa-al-nisāʼ (f. 42v).
   
• Incipit of work 5: Fa-inna al-faqīh ʻabd Allāh wa-lazima ʻalá kull mukallaf ʻan yaʻrifa mā yajibu ʻalayhi qabla an yafʻalahu (f. 87r).
   

Extent

221 leaves : 380 x 230 (285 x 162) mm bound to 388 x 250 mm

Foliation

Partially foliated (1-123) followed by 40 unnumbered leaves ; catchwords lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Leaves are unbound and have never been bound. They are held between a piece of stiff hide with the hair side inside and a piece of card, wrapped in another piece of hide with patches of spotted hair still attached.

Layout

6-14 long lines; many interlinear glosses.

Decoration

Grid of brown and white on opening leaf (f. 1r) covering text that was there first; some rubrications in red.

Script

Written in a maghribi script using an oblique cut pen in black and brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Doctrines
• God (Islam)
• Kufr (Islam)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• God (Islam)
• Islam--Doctrines
• Kufr (Islam)
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Compilation manuscripts
• Illuminations (paintings)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Majmūʻah].
• fol. 1v — Umm al-barāhīn fī ʻilm al-kalām [incomplete]
• fol. 13r — Ṣughrá al-ṣughrá
• fol. 30v — Maqṣūd bi-al-niẓām sabk jawāhiran min al-kalām wa-dhālika mā yadkhulu taḥta qawl al-shahādah.
• fol. 42r — Aʻlamu annā wajadnā min anwāʻ al-kufr al-mujmaʻ ʻalayhi faḍlan ʻan al-mukhtalif fīhi al-ṭalbah wa-al-ʻāmmah wa-al-nisāʼ.
• fol. 87r — Fa-inna al-faqīh ʻabd Allāh wa-lazima ʻalá kull mukallaf ʻan yaʻrifa mā yajibu ʻalayhi qabla an yafʻalahu.
• fol. 91r — Salīm
• Unnumbered 1 recto — [Dalīl al-qāʼid li-kashf asrār ṣifāt al-wāḥid (incomplete and out of order)]
• Unnumbered 33 recto — Various leaves

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorative grid.
• Unnumbered 40 recto — Description
• Unnumbered 40 recto — Catalog entry
• Unnumbered 40 verso — Geometric design