Kitāb al-Tanqīḥ li-alfāẓ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ - Zarkashī, Muḥammad ibn Bahādur, 1344 or 1345-1392.
Dense copy of a commentary on al-Bukhārī's Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, completed on 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 788 [Dec. 1, 1386] (see end of text, fol. 103a).
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a. A similar title appears in the preamble (fol. 1b, l. 10-11) and the colophon (fol. 103a): "al-Tanqīḥ li-alfāẓ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ". The name of the author appears in the colophon as: Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Zarkashī.
Physical description: 32-35 lines per page. Written in informal but clear small hand in black ink with use of red. Soft light cream paper, with pulp visible. Collation statements at the end of each quire, in the form "qūbila fa-ṣaḥḥa" (see fol. 13b, margin). Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a, including verses of poetry, additions (fāʼidah), and ownership statements. Fol. 103b-104b: Blank. Quires disbound.
Collation: Paper, fol. 105 ; 1-6¹⁴ 7¹⁴ (+1, fol. 94) 8⁶ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, except for the last one (see "2" on fol. 14a) ; foliation in Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil in Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT S 54" (repeated in red pencil on the pastedown).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Monday 17 Jumādá II 883 [Sept. 15, 1478] by Aḥmad ibn ---? al-Ḥamawī al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 103a).
Keywords: Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, -- 810-870.; Hadith -- Language, style -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 15th century; Waqf -- Books -- 19th century