R.13.18 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

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Summary of Contents: A Sufistic treatise on the necessity of expelling grief from the heart by the contemplation of spiritual things.

Author: Thaʻālibī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, 961 or 2-1037 or 8 الثعالبي، عبد الملك بن محمد، ابو منصور

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

no. 1287

Palmer, pp. 43-44

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

Subjects

Sufi literature

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