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Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The first volume of a copy in 30 volumes (see fol. 1a and colophon, fol. 80b) of Bukhārī's collection of traditions, as transmitted by Aḥmad ibn Ḥamūyah al-Sarakhsī from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Bukharī al-Farabrī, from the author. This volume contains the first part until Kitāb al-Wuḍūʾ (in the ms: "al-Ṭahārah"), Bāb al-Wuḍūʾ bi-al-mudd (IV, 48).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title on fol. 1a reads : "al-Juzʾ al-awwal min al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ taʾlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻīl ibn Ibrahīm al-Bukhārī".
• This could be part of the same set as Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 688H(ii).
• 13 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink, with gold for headings and decorations, and some red for decoration and collation notes. Light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible ; frame-ruled (140 mm.). Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold and color (fol. 1a). Fol. 1b: chain of transmission of the text. Collation notes throughout (with the mention of a collation with "al-nushkah al-yūnanīyah(?)", see fol. 19a, 80b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (fol. 1-11 only).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 80 ; 1⁸ 2-7¹⁰ 8⁶? (+ 2, ff. 69-70) 9⁴? ; catchword on the verso of each leaf of the first part of the quire.
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسّرْ أخبرنا أبو الوقت عبد الاول بن عيسى ... وخمسين و ماتَيْنِ قال [2أ] كيف كانَ بَدْؤ الوَحْي الي رَسُوْل الله
• Explicit: أوْ كَانَ يَغْتَسِلُ بالصَّاعِ إِلىَ خَمسَةِ أَمدَادٍ وَ يَتَوَضَّأُ بِالمُدِّ

Binding note

Upper and lower covers made of dark brown leather over pasteboards and similarly blind stamped and tooled, with a central eight lobe medallion framed within an elaborate octagonal border. Disbound.

Provenance

Audition statements on fol. 80b (one dated 14 Shawwāl 9(?)07 H. [1502]). Seal obliterated on fol. 2b. 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

OCLC

67612815

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