Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731. نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل، 1641-1731.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 199
Image Count:
648
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
famous Ṣufī, a prolific author and poet
Alternative Title:
جواهر النصوص في حل كلمات الفصوص، [1727] / لعبد الغني بن إسماعيل النابلسي.
Description:
of the author himself on Thursday, 8
Subject (Name):
Ibn al-ʻArabī,--1165-1240.--Fuṣuṣ al-ḥikam., Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl,--1641-1731., ابن العربي،--1165-1240.--فصص الحكم., and نابلسي، عبد الغني بن إسماعيل،--1641-1731.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Sufism--Early works to 1800.
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
For the author see Graf, Geschichte der
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766
In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 1b): "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāh, innī asʼaluka al-iʻānah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Qāla Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr // mubtadiʼan bi-bismi al-ilāh al-qadīri. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī ʻallamanā // sirra al-kunūzi wa-bihi awlānā ... Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri // taḥqīqun fī ṣanāyiʻi al-abrāri ...", Secundo folio: Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 16.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: Brown leather binding with flap, covers embossed with central medallions, in four numbered quires., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many commentaries and corrections on the margins; magic squares; text within double red frames; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk musammiyan [musammá] bi-Durrat al-anwār lil-fāḍil Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī, wa-huwa ʻumdah fī al-funūn al-maʻdūmah, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá. Āmīn. Bi-jāh Sayyid al-Mursalīn.", On folio 1a: A medical snuff recipe for those afflicted with the spirits of the rebellious Jinn: "Ṣifat saʻūṭ lil-muṣāb bi-aryāḥ al-jān al-mutamarridīn ...", On the margin of folio 136b, a coallation note: "Balaghah muqābalatan bi-ghāyat al-diqqah ʻalá yadinā. Kātibuhu al-faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah.", On folios 137a and 138a-138b, medico-magical recipes, in a different hand., Colophon (folio 136b): "Tamma hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Ithnayn al-mubārak al-muwāfiq 4 arbaʻah khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1007 [?] alf wa-sabʻ sinīn [?] min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-adhká [wa-azká] al-taḥīyah wa-sallama taslīman kathīran dāyiman abadan ilá Yawm al-Dīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá yad kātibihi al-faqīr ilá Allāh ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Tamm. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb wa-ilayhi al-marjiʻ wa-al-maʼāb. Wa-ilá Allāh tarjiʻ al-umūr. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", and Translation of the colophon: "This book was concluded on blessed Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] of the Hijrah of the Prophet ... Copied by ... ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī ..."