Details

Subject(s)

• Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 810-870—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ [Browse]
• Muslim ibn 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]
• Hadith—Texts—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. 719H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a collection of traditions from Bukhārī and Muslim, 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 of text (fol. 5b, two last lines).
• Marginal and interlinear annotations. Several inscriptions on fol. Ia, including verses of poetry in Persian on simple and composed ignorance. Note on fol. 1a, mentioning the number of leaves (282) and of quires (28) in the volume.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 274 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black ; folios 6b-37b frame-ruled in gold, black and red.
• Description: Written in small script in black ink with use of red for headings and entries.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in blue, red and gold. Opening pages frame-ruled in gold, black and blue (fol. 1b-2a). Fol. 1b has text-stops in gold.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Ilyās ibn ʻUlwān ibn Khalīl ; copy (tanmīq) completed on Wednesday 11 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 964 [Feb. 11, 1557] (fol. 274a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله محى الرمم ومجرى القلم وذارئ الامم وبارئ النسم ... [2ب] ... قال الملتجئ الى حرم الله تعالى الحسن بن محمد بن الحسن الصغانى ... قبل ان يضعضع الموت اركانه وجداه على ان يعمر ربع الورع ... اما بعد فانى مذ تدرّجت مراقى الشرف وتحرّجت من مساقى السرف عطوت بشناتر العزم على اعراف المجد.
• Explicit: ق ابن عمر رضى الله عنه لبيك اللهم لبيك لبيك لا شريك لك لبيك ان الحمد والنعمة لك والملك لا شريك لك كان يلبي بهذه التلبية فى حجّه وعمرته م انس رضى الله عنه لبيك عمرة وحجًّا.

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Gold-stamped with a central oblong piece, outlined in gold extending to three-lobed lotus pendants on the vertical axis. The outer border consists of a guilloche outlined in gold with a small rosace in the inner corners. Paper pastedowns. Endbands. Possibly a type II binding missing its flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1386
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 360 (21/1) ; SI
• Mach, R. Yahuda, 643

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

كتاب مشارق للامام الصغاني رحمه الله من كتب الاحاديث

Title in inscription on fol. 1a

• Kitāb Mashāriq lil-Imām al-Ṣaghānī raḥimahu Allāh min kutub al-aḥādīth

OCLC

182545088

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