Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 688H(ii) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

The twenty-first volume of a copy in 30 volumes (see fol. 112b) of Bukhārī's collection of traditions. This volume contains parts of the Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qurʼān (from [Bāb] Sūrat al-Qalam), the Kitāb Faḍāʼil al-Qurʼān, and parts of the Kitāb al-Nikāḥ (to Bāb Tazwīj al-āb ibnatahu min al-imām).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title on fol. 1a reads : "al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrūn min Ṣaḥīḥ al-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī". Collation notes (mention "balagha" at the end of each quire; collated on a copy written by Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad(?) ibn Yūsuf ibn Mālik al-Ruʻaynī al-Gharnāṭī, see fol. 112b).
• This might be part of the same set as Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 688H(i).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 112 ; 1-10¹⁰ 11¹² ; catchword on the verso of each leaf, except the 5th of the quinions; from the 4th quire on, catchword on the verso of the 1st to 4th and 10th fol. of each quire (1st to 6th in the 11th quire) ; quires numbered using Arabic ordinals (starts on fol. 11 a, "thānī") ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 long lines per page.
• Description: . Written in medium large script in black ink, with use of red for the word "ḥaddathanā". The headings are in a larger black script. Light cream glazed paper, with vertical chain lines (grouped by two and three) and laid lines visible. Text vocalized troughout.
• Origin: Copied in Aleppo by Jaʻfar ibn Ismaʻīl ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn Zafrah(?) on 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 791 [December 1389] (colophon, fol. 112b).
• Incipit: بسم ... وصلّي الله علي سيدنا محمد واله سورة القلم قَالَ قتادة حرد جد في انفسهم وقال ابن العباس بضالون أَضْلَلْنا مكان
• Explicit: وَ هْي بنتُ تِسعَ سنِينَ قال هشام وأُنبيتُ أَنَّها كانَت عندَهُ تِسعَ سنِينَ

Binding note

Only the lower cover is extant. Brown leather over pasteboards. Blind tooled central medallion within an outer frame made of fillets and a running pattern. Leather doublure with block-pressed interweaving leafy scrolls.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1341

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

67612814

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