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Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—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. 254Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the precepts of Islamic faith and religious practices.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Marginal notes and annotations. Fol. 1a has another title above the main one, suggesting that the ms is a collection of several works: Ayyuha al-Walad and Bidāyat al-Hidāyah by al-Ghazzālī and Majmūʻat Majālis Fiqhīyah by Ḥafiẓ al-Nasafī (this was possibly a part of a larger ms?). A circle in black ink on the inside of upper cover and a drawing made up of concentric and overlapping circles on the inside of lower cover.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 109 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in black ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسملة وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين باب فى بيان الايمان اعلم يجب ان يعتقد العبد
• Explicit: قال اليوم التاسع وقال بعضهم اليوم الحادى عشر واكثرهم على انه اليوم العاشر

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in dark burgundy leather over pasteboard. Blind fillets around borders of covers. Blind stamped mandorlas in the centre with a single blind fillet along the vertical axis towards the edges of covers. Blind fillets and a blind stamped mandorla on the envelope flap. Pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to the envelope flap in marbled paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in burgundy leather. Spine and fore edge flap repaired in red leather.

Language note

In Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 922.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SNII, 268.

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• Kitāb faḍāʼil aʻmāl
• كتاب فضائل اعمال

OCLC

174114886

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