Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of Sufi writings and prayers

Authors

• Jafāʼī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Khalwatī, active 1481
  جفائى، حسين بن حسن خلوتى،
• Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258
  شاذلي، ابو الحسن علي بن عبد الله،
• Kūrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl, 1410 or 1411-1487 or 1488
  كوراني، احمد بن اسماعيل،
• Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
  ابو السعود محمد بن محمد،
• Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274
  صدر الدين القونوي، محمد بن اسحاق،
• Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
  ابن العربي،
• ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166
  عبد القادر الجيلاني،

Other related names

• Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf, active 1875, associated name
  محمد امين يوسف،
• Delacorte, Valerie, 1914-2011, donor
• Delacorte, George T. 1893-1991, former owner

Call number

MS Or 477
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14441781
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1134993338
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_477.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14441781

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1797

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Collection of texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. After the first work, a large portion of the manuscript is prayers attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī with other, additional prayers and religious poetry. Main texts are copied in at least two hands with notes in additional hands.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Stamp with the name ʻUthmān (stamps, f. 147v).
   
• Note signed Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf of a Shādhilī Dergāh and dated Ramaḍān 1292 (1875 CE) laid in.
   

Extent

175 leaves : 161 x 116 (110 x 69) mm, bound to 160 x 116 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; large, central medallion with painted foliate fill and a frame; gilded, inset medallion on flap with frame; bright blue paper pastedowns and endleaves; spine is reinforced with brown leather.

Layout

11 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, yellow with blue and red foliate finials (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in two styles: gold, black, red (f. 1v-143r, 162v-164v), single red (f. 143v-161v); gold roundels with orange and blue dots punctuate the text; other simple headpieces in gold lined with black (f. 55v, 76v, 77v, 82v, 112v, 123v, 135v); diagram in black and red (f. 30v), table in black (f. 121v); rubrications in red, some headers set into gold bands (for example, f. 30r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Valerie Delacorte in Memory of George T. Delacorte, 2007.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Sufism--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Painted (decoration)
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Collection of Sufi writings and prayers]
• fol. 1v — Manāzil quṭb al-ʻārifīn wa manāzil aṣḥāb al-sālikīn
• fol. 112v — Risālah
• fol. 123v — [Prayer]
• fol. 135v — Wird / Sayyid Yaḥyá
• fol. 140v — Wird / Mūllá al-Kūrānī
• fol. 142r — Duʻāʹnāmah / Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī
• fol. 143v — [Prayers] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArabī al-Khātimī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī
• fol. 162v — Duʻāʼ sharif / Ṣadr al-Dīn Qanawī
• fol. 166v — Khawāṣṣ Ayat al-Kursī
• fol. 167v — Manājāt / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī
• fol. 169v — Ḥizb / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī
• fol. 171v — Duʻāʼ al-Fātiḥah maʻ al-basmalah / al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn
• fol. 173v — Ṣalāt ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 55v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 76v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 77v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 79v — Table
• fol. 82v — Illuminated headpiece
• Insert i recto — Notations
• Insert i recto — Stamp
• Insert i verso — Notations
• Insert ii recto — Notations
• Insert ii verso — Notations
• fol. 112v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 121v — Table
• fol. 123v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 135v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 175v — Table
• fol. 176r — Tables
• fol. 176v — Notations
• fol. 177r — Tables
• fol. 177v — Notations