Majmūʾah - مجموعة.

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 16883
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex 38 ff. Materials : Paper. Dimensions : 160 mm x 102 mm. Foliation : Western. Ruling : Text boxes ruled in red ink and thick gold leaf (3 mm); 106 mm x 59 mm. Script : Nesih. Ink : Black and red ink, unvans and illumination in blue, pink, red, yellow and teal ink with gold leaf. Binding : Boards covered in marbled paper with leather binding.

Scope and Content

Majmūʾah. Two texts:. ff. 1v-31r: Awrād Shādhliyah. A compilation of litanies (awrād) of the Shadhili Sufi Order. This manuscript illustrates the spread of the Shādhiliyah into ottoman Bularia, and also contains illuminated headings and colophons in regional style on ff. 1v, 2r, 25v, 31v, 34v, 35v. ff. 1v-12r: Ḥizb al-barr, by Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhili. 12v-14v: al-Ṣālat al-Mashīshiyah, by ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Mashīsh. 14v-25v: a sequence of supplications, Qurʾānic verses, etc. headed by the name of Aḥmad al-Zarrūq, but incorporating parts of the Shādhilī Waẓīfah, a litany partly by ʿAbd al-Mawāhib al-Tūnisī. 26r-31r: Ḥizb al-baḥr, by Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī. Copied in Ruse (Ruschuk) Bulgaria by Aḥmād Hidāʾī, probably in the 19th century. [ʾIjāzah]. 34v-35v: An authorization to recite a text first refer to as the al-Ḥizb al-aʿẓām, but the ijāza is in fact for al-Jazūlī's Dalāʾil al-khayrāt. Issued by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Nuʿmān, khaṭīb at Sultan Aḥmad Mosque in Vidin, Bulgaria, with his seal impression, dated 1253 AH (1837/8).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased at Christie's South Kensington on 5 October 2012, Lot 612