حادي القلوب الى طاعة علام الغيوب

Ḥādī al-qulūb ilá ṭāʻat ʻallām al-ghuyūb.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[18--?]
Description
i, 223, i leaves : paper ; 216 x 156 (170 x 117) mm. bound to 229 x 165 mm.

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    Summary note
    Part 1, containing 45 majlis, of a paraenetic work written by the first imām of the 31st cavalry regiment (19th cent.). Autograph.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b).
    • The name of the author appears in the beginning of the text as: "al-Sayyid Ṣāliḥ Wahbī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid Yūsuf al-imām al-awwal fī al-lālāʾī al-ḥādī wa-al-thalāthīn min ʻasākir al-sawārīyah" (fol. 3b).
    • 23 lines per page. Written in a thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for keywords. Light cream woven paper. On fol. 1b-2a: table of contents. Fol. 2b-3a: blank. Pagination in red ink between parentheses using Arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margin (starts at the beginning of the text, with "3" on fol. 4a).
    • On the upper cover fly-leaf, inscription in Arabic in red pencil: "Raqm 41".
    • Autograph copy (see colophon, fol. 223a).
    • Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الواحد الاحد القديم الذى علم الانسان بفصله العميم ... اما بعد فيقول ... قد كنت عدة من الايام و برهة من الاعوام متصديا لافادة العوام بقرائة المواعظ النافعة
    • Explicit: ومن اعتمد عليه اعطه العطاء الجميل وقالوا حسبنا وفقنا وانا احمد الله على اتمام الجزء الاول من كتاب حادى ... و واسئله التوفيق لاتمام الجزء الثانى
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 2151
    OCLC
    68967971
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