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Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Acquisition of manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

First half of the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 302a). The same title appears on the tail of the text block.
• 23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Biscuit paper with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Portion of the inscriptions on the margins cut off due to the trimming of the pages.
• Incipit: اخبرنا الشيخ الامام ... ابو محمد القسم بن الامام ... ابى القاسم على بن الحسن بن هبة الله ... قراةً عليه فى ذى الحجة سنة ثلاث وثمانين وخمسماية بدمشق قال اخبرنا
• Explicit: باب اسلام سلمان الفارسى رضى الله عنه حدثنى الحسن بن عمر بن شقيق ... عليهما ستّماية سنة ه ه ه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم كتاب المغازى باب غ-- العشيرة حدثنى عبد الله بن محمد قال حدثنا وهب تم النصف الاول من صحيح البخارى زيتلوه النصف الاخر فى المغازى

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central medallion consisting of a star motif inscribed in several circles. Outer frame consisting of fillets. Leather doublure.

Provenance

Long selling statement dated 19 Jumādá al-Ūlá 823 H. [1420], mentioning the names of [---] Ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān Abū [---], known as Najm al-Tāriqī [Mach reads Ṭārimī] and of al-amīr Naṣr Allāh ibn ... Ḥāmid ibn ... ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ... al-Shakarlabī (fol 2a). Circular seal on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 577

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

122942185

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