Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Companions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Commentaries—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. 676H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An encyclopedia on the lives of pre-Islamic prophets and religious figures followed by a Qurʼanic commentary.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from collective title page (fol. 1a, first group)
• Marginal and interlinear notes. Incomplete at the beginning. Pages missing between folios 78 and 79.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 138 + 188 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19-23 lines per page.
• Description: Some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents, countermark roman-alphabet initials "VG" with clover between) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: [Ḥayāt al-qulūb] According to colophon copied 1144 (fol. 138b, first group) -- [Majlis fī tafsīr] Copied 1136 (fol. 188b, second group).
• Incipit: [حيوة القلوب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم واذ قال اي اذکر يا محمد اذ قال ربك للملائكة جمع ملك ... -- [مجلس في تفسير] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. سورة الفاتحة قوله تعالى الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرصم الى اخر السورة ...
• Colophon: [حيوة القلوب] والحمد لله على التمام. والصلوة والسلام على سيد الانام وعلى آله العظام واصحابه الفخام والسلام عليکم مع جميع اهل الاسلام. سنة 1144 -- [مجلس في تفسير] تمة بعون الله الملك سنة 1136

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-138b, first group: Ḥayāt al-qulūb. A kind of religious encyclopedia containing the lives of Adam (in part), Noah, Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, Abraham, Ishmael, Lot, Joseph and Job. Here a section is missing. Then follows the lives of Elijah, David, Solomon and Jonah, together with St. George, Zachariah and John. These are followed by an account of the miracles of Jesus, the birth of Muḥammad and the virtues of the Companions. Unclear if it is extracted from al-Majlisī's work.
• 2. fol. 1a-188b, second group: Majlis fī tafsīr. A commentary on the Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Māʻūn-Sūrat al-Kawthar (CVII-CVIII) missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 737, 1323.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• متن حيوة القلوب وال[...]
• Ḥayāt al-qulūb.
• حياة القلوب.
• Majlis fī tafsīr.
• مجلس في تفسير.

Title on lower edge of text block

• Matn Ḥayāt al-qulūb wa-al-[...]

OCLC

1350156035

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