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Subject(s)

• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Waẓāʼif al-yawm wa-al-laylah. [Browse]
• سيوطي وظائف اليوم والليلة [Browse]
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Kalim al-ṭayyib wa-al-qawl al-mukhtār. Selections. [Browse]
• سيوطي كلم الطيب والقول المختار [Browse]
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Minhāj al-sunnah wa-miftāḥ al-jannah. Selections. [Browse]
• سيوطي منهاج السنة ومفتاح الجنة [Browse]
• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360. Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb. [Browse]
• ابن هشام، عبد الله بن يوسف اعراب عن قواعد الاعراب [Browse]

Summary note

Composite ms. with two separate texts, the first one a compilation of ḥadīths on ritual customs, being an abridgment of Suyūṭī's two books Minhāj al-sunnah and al-Kalim al-ṭayyib (see beginning of text, fol. 2b), the second, a work on questions of grammar.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, from title page of text 1 (fol. 2a).
• Text 1 (fol. 2-30) written in medium small naskh in black ink with larger script in red ink for headings, with 25 lines per page (written surface: 130 x 90 mm.), on light cream paper with pulp, laid, and chain lines visible. Text 2 (fol. 31-47) written in medium small naskh with elements of nataʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 13 lines per page, on glazed European paper with watermark. The text is framed within a single red line, with ann outer border consisting of a single red line, and ḥāshiyah in between. From fol. 43a, no outer border. Catchword on the verso of each leaf throughout. Several inscriptions, including title of text 2, on fol. 31a. Long inscription in Ottoman Turkish written vertically by another hand at the end of text 2. Table of contents on fol. 2a by the same hand as the title page of the first text and the main text mentioning a number of texts not present in the ms. as extant. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 48". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 461".
• Text 1 copied in 966 H. (end of text, fol. 29a).

Binding note

Paper over paper pasteboards with brown leather spine and borders for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind tooled and silver painted border.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-29a: Waẓāʼif al-yawm wa-al-laylah / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
• 2. fol. 29b-30b: [Blank].
• 2. fol. 31a-47a: Qawāʻid-i iʻrāb / Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Hishām.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (see fol. 1a). Several ownership statements on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1685, 3623
• Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 552, 656
• Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 183, 412

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

80741624

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