Details

Subject(s)

• Names, Personal—Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Etymology—Names—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Rajrajāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻīl, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• رجرجائي، محمد بن اسمعيل، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 296H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the patronymics of Arab families.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal annotations. Fol. 184 blank.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 184 ; 1¹⁰ ( -1, before fol. 1) 2-17¹⁰ 18¹² (+3, fol. 182-184) ; catchwords ; the quires are numbered using arabic numerals in red ink ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated.
• Paper: Light cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 80-99 apparently later replacement.
• Decoration: Illuminated title page in gold, black and green (fol. 1a).
• Origin: Copy completed for himself by Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻīl al-Rajrajāʼī on Sunday 12 Ramaḍān 958 [Sept. 13, 1551] (colophon, fol. 183b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله المتنزه عن الاشباه والانساب واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ... هذا ما اشتدت اليه حاجة المحدث اللبيب من مختصر في الانساب واف بالمقصود.
• Explicit:بن الياس بن مضر وهذا اخر الكتاب والحمد لله قال مختصره الامام العلامة ابو الفضل جلال الدين السيوطي اختصرته في عشرة ايام متواليه اخرها يوم الاثنين سابع عشر صفر سنة ثلاث وسبعين وثمانماية من نسخة صحيحة مقابلة على اصل ابن الاثير وفي اخرها ما نصه فرغ منه مولفه يوم الثلاثا لعشر بقين من جمادي الاولي سنة خمس عشرة وستماية ... وقد استقصيت انا فى هذا المختصر كثيرا مما فاتهما واستدركت منه جمعا جما وغالب ما زدته من معجم البلدان لياقوت الحموي رحمة الله تعالي عليهم اجمعين و لله الحمد وصلي الله عللا سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers are have a similar blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on the vertical and horizontal axis and corner pieces enclosed within a frame made of fillets and running patterns. The envelope flap has a portion of the same decoration. Gold-flecked orange paper pastedowns.

Provenance

• Several ownership statements and one seal impression fol. 1a, some obliterated, others partly covered by mending of the borders of the page. Obliterated seal impression on fol. 183a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Several ownership statements and one seal on fol. 1a, some obliterated, others partly covered by mending of the borders of the page. Obliterated seal on fol. 183a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 294
• Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 627
• Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 561

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

123499055

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