Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 065/3

Former shelfmark

Total pages

68 fols

Folio measures

197x130 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

al-Hādī li-al-mutahdī

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1859

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

تمت [ت] م م م م م ... م قد حرره محمد الحاج انفدى في ٧ ذا سنه ١٢٧٥

Colophon position

Fol. 97v

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

An undated copy of a Naqšbandī selection of 40 ḥadīṯs on ḏikr by an otherwise unknown author. 16 fols.; 17 lines/page; p. d. 199×122mm, w. s. 168×58mm; illuminated headpiece on fol. 1v in red, gold, blue and mauve ink; partial leather (çahārkūşe) binding with marbled paper covers; paper doublure; in fair condition; water stains; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nastaʿlīq; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; frames on fol. 1v and 2r red ink; rule-borders in red ink; flyleaves; fols. 15r–16v are blank. The manuscript was purchased by the Library from Rafael Danglmajer in 1950.

Entry author

Marina Santana