Taʻrīfāt; تعريفات

Alternate Title:

Taʻrīfāt al-sayyidī

Contributor:

Qarahʹfaryahʹvī, Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1642 (scribe); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1642

Description:

Dictionary of sufi and philosophical terms.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī in 1864 or 5 (note in ink, f. 1r).; Formerly owned by Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī (undated note in ink, f. 1r).; Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, active 1864, former owner.; Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar Afandī, former owner.; Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms366.html

Subject:

Islam -- Terminology; Islamic philosophy; Sufism; Sufism -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800; Islamic philosophy -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800; Islam -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 17th century; codices (bound manuscripts); dictionaries; Annotations (Provenance); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

130 leaves : paper; 145 x 100 (95 x 50) bound to 145 x 105 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from introduction (f. 1v).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Binding: Mostly disbound; covers of brown leather over thin pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-tooled frame of double parallel lines and blind-stamped central mandorla; title on bottom edge in black ink.; Origin: Copy completed in 1052 A.H. (1643 of 1643 CE) by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qarahʹfaryahʹvī (Qarafaryavī) (f. 130v).; Two owner's notes, one dated 1281 A.H. (1864 or 1865 CE) (f. 1r).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 366