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Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Vol. 12 and 23 of an elegant copy of the Ṣahīḥ by al-Bukhārī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title pages (vol. 12, fol. 2a ; vol. 23, fol. 3a).
• 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with black circle with a central dot text-stops. Larger script for the headings, written in gold outlined in black. Soft paper, glossy, with pulp and laid and chain lines visible. A few marginal annotations apparently by the same hand as the main text, with commentaries, some ascribed to al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ. The text has been collated (see collation statement on vol. 12, fol. 90b). Waqf (see inscription "waqf" on the upper margins of some leaves). Vol. 23 has a table of contents by a later hand on fol. 2b. Worm-eaten.
• Illuminated title-page (unwān) of vol. 12 (fol. 2a) consists of one panel with a medallion on its upper left side, outlined in blue ink with flecks at each corner, in the middle of the left edge, and on the left sife of the medallion. The medallion, outlined in black, has a floral motif in gold and blue on a red ground with a gold border. The central panel is divided in two : the upper vertical rectangular panel is framed in gold and black and has the beginning of the title written in stylistic "Kufic" in gold on a blue ground with an arabesque in gold and red. The lower vertical rectangular panel has a gold and black border with the rest of the title and the statement of responsibility written in black naskh in cloud cartouches left blank and outlined in black over a ground hatched in red with arabesque in black ink with red and blue coloring.
• Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān) of vol. 23 (fol. 3a) consists of a panel outlined in blue with flecks radiating from each corner and a group of four dots in the middle of each edge, except the upper one. The panel has a border of a chain motif in gold, blue, red and black. This border also divides the two elements of the panel, with an upper horizontal rectangle with the beginning of the title in gold outlined in black on a blue ground with a gold and red arabesque. The rest of the title and the statement of responsibility is written on the lower panel in seven lines in gold outlined in black in cloud cartouches outlined in black on a ground left undecorated except for a few leaves motifs in black ink. Medallion with a floral motif in gold, red and blue outlined in blue on the left margin. At each side of the title of the first Bāb (fol. 3b), gold, black and red teardrop outlined in blue with flecks on the vertical axis.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover of vol. 12 : "al-Thānī ʻashar min al-Bukhārī". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover of vol. 23 : "al-Juz al-thālith wa-al-ʻashrūn min Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī".

Binding note

Both volumes have a similar binding in golden brown leather over paper pasteboards. The upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a panel defined by fillets with a large border consisting of fillets and a running pattern. The central panel has a central eight-pointed star motif defined by interwined fillets on a ground filled with stamp impressions and gold dots. The inner corners are outlined by a fillet which develops at its center into an ogival form pointing towards the central star motif. The triangular and ogival forms defined by the fillet are filled with stamp impressions and gold dots. At the point of the ogival form are three impressions of a small circular stamp in gold and a fleck (similar to the inner corners of the binding published by D. Haldane. Islamic bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983, plate 55, but smaller ogival form). The fore-edge and envelope flaps are only extant on vol. 23. The envelope flap has a similar outer border with a circular medallion defined by a fillet on its point. The space defined by this fillet and the outer border is filled with stamp impressions. The medallion is left untooled with on its inner left side, a smaller medallion with three gold impressions of a small circular stamp and a fleck pointing to the right. The small medallion is filled with stamp impressions and a gold dot on its center. The leather doublure is covered by modern paper.

Contents

• vol. 12 : Bāb Mubādarat al-imām ʻinda al-fazaʻ - Bāb Ithm al-ghādir lil-barr wa-al-fājir.
• vol. 23 : Bāb al-tasmiyah ʻalá al-ṭaʻām wa-al-akl bi-al-yamīn - Bāb sharāb al-ḥalwāʼ wa-al-ʻasal.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1346

Other title(s)

الجزء الثاني عشر [الثالث والعشرون] من صحيح البخاري

Title in colophons (vol. 12, fol. 90b ; vol. 23, fol. 95a)

• al-Juzʼ al-thānī ʻashar [al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrūn] min Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī

OCLC

123897221

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