al-Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq... [etc.]; الرسالة الدامغة للفاسق... [إلخ.]

Name:

Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020; Muqtaná, Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020; Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021

Date:

1700

Description:

Collection of 26 texts of the Druze community.

Language:

Arabic

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1913.html

Subject:

Druzes -- Sacred books -- Early works to 1800; Druzes

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

108 leaves : paper; 160 x 120 (130 x 110) mm bound to 160 x 120 mm.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Arabic.; Title from title of first text (f. 1r); Table of contents: 1. f. 1r-13r: Risālah al-dāmighah lil-fāsiq al-radd ʻalá al-Nuṣayrī laʻanahu al-Mawlá fī kull kawr wa-dawr -- 2. f. 13r-33v: Risālat al-Tanzīh ilá jamāʻat al-Muwaḥḥidīn -- 3. f. 23v-30v: al-Mawsūmah bi-risālat al-nisāʼ al-kabīrah -- 4. f. 30v-34v: al-Ṣubḥah al-kāʼinah -- 5. f. 35r-36r: Nuskhat Sijill al-Mujtabá -- 6. f. 36v-40r: Taqlīd al-Riḍá -- 7. f. 40r-44v: Nuskhat Taqlīd al-Muqtaná -- 8. f. 44v-45r: Mukātabah ilá ahl al-Kudīyah al-baydāʼ -- 9. f. 45r-46r: Risālat al-Inṣināʼ --10. f. 46r-47v: Sharṭ al-Imām ṣāḥib al-kashf -- 11. f. 47v-49r: al-Risālah allatī ursilat ilá Walī al-ʻAhd -- 12. f. 49r-50v: Risālat Khumār ibn Jaysh al-Sulaymānī al-ʻAkāwī -- 13. f. 51r-55v: al-Munājāh munājāt Walī al-ḥaqq -- 14. f. 55v-59r: al-Duʻāʼ al-mustajāb -- 15. f. 59r-60r: Taqdīs duʻāʼ al-sādiqīn -- 16. f. 60r-61r: Dhikr maʻrifat al-Imām wa-asmāʼ al-Ḥudūd al-ʻulwīyah rūḥānī wa-jusmānī -- 17. f. 61v-64v: Risālat al-Taḥdhīr wa-al-tanbīh -- 18. f. 64v-67v: al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Iʻdhār wa-al-indhār -- 19. f. 67v-74v: Risālat al-Ghaybah -- 20. f. 75v-88r: Kitab fihi taqsīm al-ʻulūm wa-ithbāt al-ḥaqq wa-kashf al-maknūn -- 21. f. 88r-93r: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālah al-zinād -- 22. f. 93r-98v: al-Mawsūmah bi-Risālah al-Shamʻah -- 23. f. 98v-104r: al-Mawsūmah bi-al-Rushd wa-al-hidāyah -- 24. f. 104r-105v: Shiʻr al-Nafs wa-mā tawfīqī illā billāh -- 25. f. 105v-107v: al-Risālah al-munfadhah ilá al-Qāḍī -- 26. f. 107v-108r: Nuskhat mā katabahu al-Qarmaṭī ilá mawlānā al-Ḥākim.; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: 13 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.; Decoration: Rubrications in red. Titles in slightly larger thuluth. Red roundels sometimes used to punctuate text.; Binding: Black leather over pasteboard with mostly effaced blind-stamped frame. Marbled paper doublures. Endbands in pink and green. Binding has been repaired with a piece of textile over the back cover spine hinge.; Origin: The item is not dated. Perhaps copied in the 18th or 19th century.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1913