R.13.18 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: A Sufistic treatise on the necessity of expelling grief from the heart by the contemplation of spiritual things.
Title: Kitāb mu᾽nis al-waḥīd
Title: كتاب مؤنس الوحيد
Incipit: الحمد لله مبدع العقول ومنشي الارواح وخالق الاجسام وواهب الحيوة الذي رتّب الانسان ما بين الجماد والحيوان...
Explicit: ... ويحرس عليك دينك ودنياك والحمد لله وحده والصلوة على جميع المصطفين خاصة خاتم الشرايع وآهله الطاهرين واصحابه الفائزين
This work was wrongly classified by Sir William Jones as 'Medicine and Essays in Arabic'.
Language(s): Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: other
Extent: 42 ff.
Foliation: Foliation supplied by the cataloguer
Condition
Much discoloured by age
Hand(s)
Naskh
Decoration
Rubrication
History
Origin: Undated, but probably 13th/14th century A.D.
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Trinity College Cambridge
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