نور اللمعة في خصوصية يوم الجمعة ؛ شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموت والقبور

Nūr al-lumʻah fī khuṣūṣīyat yawm al-Jumʻah ; Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawt wa-al-qubūr.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[ 1486?]
Description
190 leaves: paper ; 186 x 135 (138 x 95) mm. bound to 186 x 135 mm.

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    Contains
    Summary note
    Collection of two treatises by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī on the properties of Friday and on death. There is a table of contents of the second text on fol. 127a-b.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 1a (damaged) and 28b.
    • 17 to 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānīyah" (see fol. 11a). The second text is foliated using Arabic numerals in black ink.
    • Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qādirī. Text 1 completed on 11 Ṣafar 891(?, Mach, R. Yahuda) [Feb. 16, 1486](colophon, fol. 26b).
    Binding note
    Brown leather with geometrical blind tooling (star) over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather doublure (embossed?). Spine and covers damaged.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-26b: [Nūr al-lumʻah] fī khuṣūṣīyat yawm al-Jumʻah / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
    • 2. fol. 28b-187b: Sharḥ al-ṣudūr bi-sharḥ ḥāl al-mawt wa-al-qubūr [incomplete at end] / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
    Provenance
    Two obliterated ownership statements on fol. 1a, one dated 10-7 H. the other with a seal dated 1088 H. [1677 or 8]. Ownership statement signed Abū al-Wafā Ibn Aḥmad al-Kawākibī (or: Kawākī) on fol. 26b, 28a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1828, 2544
    • Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 221, 403
    • Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 438
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    79873620
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