Jarring Prov. 279
[ Jarring Prov. 279 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
Mir Muhammad Sadiq Sa'di Qadiri.
Manaqib-i Hazrat Ghouth al-A'zam.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan.
19th century, early (?).
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Lund University Library
, Manaqib-i Hazrat Ghouth al-A'zam. Eastern Turkistan, 19th century, early (?), Uighur
Old number 85. An Eastern Turki manuscript. Although both beginning and end are missing this manuscript can be established to be the ... (Muginov No. 293). It is the biography of Shaikh 'Abd ul-Qadir Djilani, whose name appears on f. 1b as ..., on f. 2a given a slight different name, viz ... . The name of the author appears on f. 1b as ..., whereas Muginov has: Muhammad Sadiq Suri Qadiri. The biography is divided into 91 ... of which the end of the 90th and the whole 91st are missing. Folios 1-100 partly destroyed by fire and replaced with new text on a different kind of paper. One loose page, numbered 1x which seems to belong to this ms., the lacuna of which is not to be found. Cf. Prov. 26.
Physical description
Extent: ff. 164 ; 235 x 130mm.
Decoration
Binding
Paper covers, back of blue and black cloth
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Poor
History
Origin
No date indicated but the undamaged original pages indicate early 19th century.
Provenance
On a label pasted on to the outside front cover: ... the meaning and origin of which Jarring has not been able to establish. Bought in 1930 in Kashghar by Gunnar Jarring. The bookseller Roze Akhond considered it to be a very rare book.
Acquisition
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.
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