Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn; تنبيه الغافلين وايضاح سبيل المرشدين

Name:

Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1419

Description:

Lacunose copy of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī's work on ethics and advice. The leaves are unbound and pages are missing, particularly from the beginning. Some pages have been rewritten in another hand and replaced.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.; Accessioned, 1934.; Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner.; Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner.

Publisher:

A.H. 822 (1419)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex25.html

Subject:

Religious ethics; Religious ethics -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Islam -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Islam; Islamic ethics -- Early works to 1800; Islamic ethics; Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Islam -- Doctrines; Ethics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Codices (bound manuscripts); Blind tooled (decoration); Envelope flaps (features); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

142 leaves, unbound : paper; 270 x 205 (195 x 160) mm bound to 270 x 215 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from introduction (f. 1r).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: 23 long lines.; Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.; Decoration: Rubrications chiefly in red, but also in green and purple.; Binding: The covers are brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with a blind stamped and tinted central mandorla and blind tooled frames. The flap has a coordinating blind stamped, tinted medallion. The pastedowns on the inside covers and the flap have been trimmed in a scalloped pattern along one edge. The covers are not bound to the text. Endbands in crimson and white are visible along the bottom edge of the spine.; Origin: Copy completed on 23 Safar 822 A.H. (March 30, 1419), though that may be copied from another manuscript (f. 140v).; Two leaves have been laid into the volume.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 25