Hādhā kitāb irshād / ʻAbd al-Ḍayf Mūsá ibn Walī ibn Ḥasan.
هذا كتاب ارشاد عبد الضيف موسى بن ولي بن حسن.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

ʻAbd al-Ḍayf Mūsá ibn Walī ibn Ḥasan.

Samuel P. Orlando Fund. PU

Contributor:

Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Pillars of Islam.

Pillars of Islam--Early works to 1800.

Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Sold on eBay in 2014.

Physical Description:

8 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 mm

Production:

[Turkey], A.H. 1171 (1758)

Other Title:

Kitāb irshād

Irshād

كتاب ارشاد

ارشاد

Language Note:

Arabic, with colophon in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic script, f. 8v).

Summary:

18th-century text on the Pillars of Islam. The basmalah at the beginning is upside down (f. 1r). One bifolium or more may be missing from the center of the gathering, where the catchword does not appear to link to the text of the following page (f. 4v-5r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1v); author attribution from colophon (f. 8v).

Collation: Paper, 8; 1⁸; [1-8], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Layout: Written in 19 long lines (f. 1v-3v) and 16-17 long lines (f. 4r-8v); frame-ruled in red ink at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r). Catch phrases, lower left recto.

Script: Written in naskh script by the author (colophon, f. 8v).

Decoration: Simple headpiece and caption title (f. 1v), frame ruling (f. 1v-3r), significant words or phrases, and occasional overlining all in red ink.

Binding: Modern library cloth, Type 3.

Origin: Written in Taş Han Medresi, Tokat (Turkey), completed 9 Jumādá al-Ākhir 1171 A.H. (18 February 1758) (colophon, f. 8v).

Some water damage or staining at lower edge.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1743.

OCLC:

937833399