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Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 810-870—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ [Browse]
• بخاري، محمد بن اسماعيل،.—جامع الصحيح [Browse]
• Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī approximately 821-875—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ [Browse]
• Quḍāʻī, Muḥammad ibn Salāmah -1062 [Browse]
• Ibn al-Uqlīshī, Aḥmad ibn Maʻadd -1155 or 1156 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic Empire—14th century [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim, along with traditions from the Kitāb al-Shihāb by al-Quḍāʻī (d. 454/1062) and from the Kitāb al-Najm by al-Uqlīshī (d. 550/1155) (GAL).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble (fol. 4b, l.3-4).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red for re-inking and entries (black in the middle of the vol.). The text is vocalized. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) with basmalah in gold, black, red and blue ink on fol. 1b. Marginal annotations. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; fiber visible on the surface. Fol. 239 is a later added fly-leaf on European paper.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "1628 numrah 303".
• Origin: Copy completed on Thursday 25 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 798 [Aug. 30, 1396] by Isḥ[ā]q ibn al-ḥājj Isrāʼil(?) ibn Qutlū Beg ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ruhāwī mawladan al-Ḥanafī madhhaban wa-al-Khayrbartī maskanan (colophon, fol. 238b, followed by verses of poetry).
• Incipit: اخبرنا الشيخ الامام الحافظ العلّامة قدوة الامة وعمدة الايمة رضي الدين ابو الفضل الحسن بن محمد بن الحسن الصغاني اعلى الله قدره ورفع في الدارين ذكره قراءة مني عليه وهو يمسك اصله قال الحمد لله محيي الرمم ومجري القلم وذاريء الامم وباريء النسم ... [2ب] ... اما بعد فاني مذ تدرّجت مراقي الشرف وتحرّجت من مساقي السرف عطوت بشناتر العزم على اعراف المجد
• Explicit: ق ابن عمر لبيك اللهم لبيك لا شريك لك لبيك انّ الحمد والنعمة لك والملك لا شريك لك كان يلبّي بهذه التلبية فى حجّه وعمرته م انس لبيك عمرة وحجًّا وعمرته تم كتاب مشارق الانوار بعون الملك الغفار والصلوة والسلام على محمد المختار محمد سيّد المقربين والاخيار وعلى اله واصحابه من المهاجرين والانصار صلوة متصلة بدوام الليل والنهار

Binding note

Quarter bound in green cloth and green leather. Gilt tooling on spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 643
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 360 (21/1) ; SI

Other title(s)

مشارق الانوار النبوية للامام رضي الدين السغاني رحمه الله

Title on fol. 1a (later hand on a later piece of paper pasted on the original leaf)

• Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawīyah lil-Imām Raḍī al-Dīn al-Saghānī raḥimahu Allāh

OCLC

166902855

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