Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic etiquette—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. 336L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on various questions of fiqh, theology, philosophy and ethics, extracted from and based on other works on those subjects.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Date 1218 (1803 or 4) follows the colophon on fol. 172b, probably refering to the date of the last three fol. (fol. 170-172) which are in a similar hand but on different paper and thus supplied later. Fol. 173a has a record of birth dated 16th of Rajab 1222 (1807).
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Written in a medium sized informal script in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Foliation in pancil in Western numerals. Watermarks (coat-of-arms).
• Origin: Copied by Yaḥyá ibn Mullā Bakr ibn Mullā Ibrāhīm and completed on the 25th of Rajab 1214 (1799) -- colophon (fol. 172b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... قال الفقيه الزاهد ابو الليث ... اني قد جمعت قي كتابي هذا فنونا من العلم
• Explicit: وعجبت لمن رغب فى الجنه كيف لا يقول ما شاء الله لا قوة الا بالله ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى وصحبه اجمعين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and decorative brown paper with a silver pattern. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 920.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I (211), SI (348).

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

174144541

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