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Subject(s)

• Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4278Y [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Ibn al-Naḥwī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1041-1119 or 1120. Munfarijah. [Browse]
• ابن النحوي، يوسف بن محمد، approximately 1041-1119 or 1120. منفرجة. [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Wadʻān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1010 or 1011-1100 or 1101. Arbaʻūn al-Wadʻānīyah. [Browse]
• ابن ودعان، محمد بن علي، 1010 or 1011-1100 or 1101. اربعون الودعانية. [Browse]
• Nawawī, 1233-1277. Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah. [Browse]
• نووي، 1233-1277. اربعون النووية. [Browse]
• Qurṭubī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh. Takhmīs al-Munfarijah. [Browse]
• قرطبي، عبد الله بن عبد الله. تخميس المنفرجة. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Origin: [Arbaʻūn ḥadīth] Copied Rabīʻ II, 890 -- [Takhmīs al-Munfarijah] Copied Rabīʻ II, 890.
• Incipit: [الاربعون الودعانية] ايها الناس کأن الموت فيها على غيرنا کتب -- [كتاب الغالب] الحمد لله مبدع ما صنع ... وبعد فهذه احرف وضعها الحکيم ارسطاليس [کذا] کما نقل عنه الحکماء يحسب بها اسماء الغالب والمغلوب -- [اربعون حديثا] الحمد لله ... اما بعد فقد روينا عن على

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-21a: Arbaʻūn al-Wadʻānīyah.
• 2. fol. 27a-29b: Kitāb al-Ghālib wa-al-maghlūb. Originally part of Sirr al-asrār, cf. Gotha 1869; Fahd, La divination arabe, p. 217, note 1; Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, p. 366; see also Berlin 4248-4251 and Leiden 1225 for related texts.
• 3. fol. 31b-44a: Arbaʻūn ḥadīth.
• 4. fol. 45b-48a: Takhmīs al-Munfarijah.

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Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 699, 710, 4078, 5157.
• Brockelmann, GAL, I, 435 (6); S I, 602; I, 499 (IX); S I, 682.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Ghālib wa-al-maghlūb.
• كتاب الغالب والمغلوب.
• Ghālib wa-al-maghlūb.
• غالب والمغلوب.

OCLC

1425897356

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