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Subject(s)

• Animals—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Dietary laws—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 888H [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on what is lawful and what is unlawful to eat of animals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
• Description: Written in very casual medium small to medium large script in black ink, with scarce use of red. Biscuit paper, hardly translucid, friable, with fibers and laid lines visible. First leaf damaged. Worm-eaten.
• Origin: Copy completed on Tuesday 17 Rajab 852 [Sept. 16, 1448] (colophon, fol. 61b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي منحنا وكلام الهداية اى الاسلام وانزل كتابه على نبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم محكم الايات مفصل الاحكام ... وبعد فهذا كتاب اذكر فيه من الحيوانات الماكولة وغيرها [---] الى الحمادات الماكولة حولا ومقصودى به التنبيه على ذكر خواص وصفات الحيوانات لا يستطع الناظر في اسمايها
• Explicit: ودلالتها على موارد الواردات من الاحكام الشرعية وايضاحها المباحات والمحرمات واسال الله القبول ونيل السعادات وان يصلى [61ب] على سيدنا محمد صاحب الشفاعات والرتب العاليات وان يبلغه افضل السلام والتحيات وان يغفر لمولفه وكاتبه والناظر فيه والداعى لهم بالمغفرة وتكفير السيئات انه قريب مجيب مكفر للذنوب وساتر اللزلات ربنا اغفر لنا ... انك روف رحيم وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped panel consisting of a large lozenge stamp with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces, and an outer border consisting of fillets and a running-pattern of impressions of a s-shaped stamp on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue and brown marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1820

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• Tibyān fī mā ḥalla min maʼkūl al-ḥayawān
• تبيان في ما حل من مأكول الحيوان

Title in colophon (fol. 61b)

• Tibyān li-mā yaḥullu wa-yaḥrumu min al-ḥayawān

OCLC

168535137

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