Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Language, style [Browse]
• Quatrains, Persian [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Short treatise on the terminology used by traditionists (ahl al-ḥadīth), such as ṣaḥīḥ, saqīm, and the like. The text is preceded on the verso of a folio pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a-2b by a short text on the same topic. It is followed by a Fāʼidah written by another hand on fol. 59a. Inscriptions and short text on fol. 59b and on the pastedown of the lower cover.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand) in black ink, with use of red for entries. The text is vocalized. Dark cream soft paper, hardly translucid, with a few chain lines visible. The text is collated. Several inscriptions on fol. 3a-b, including rubāʻīyāt in Persian. Majority of quinions. Stained with humidity.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 59 ; 1¹⁰ (+2, beginning of quire) 2-5¹⁰ 6⁶.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Sulaymānshahr [nowadays: Beyşehir] on Friday end of Muḥarram 705 [Aug. 1305] (fol. 59a).
• Incipit: بسم ... وبه الحول والقوة الحمد لله القايم بذاته الدايم بجميع صفاته البالغ امره بسابق كلماته المتعرف الى من شاء من عباده بدلالاته ... وبعد فقد استدعانى من تخصص بمجامع المحابد والمفاخر
• Explicit: والاضراب على ما يخالف الصدق والصواب فانه تعالى ولى كل شىء القادر عليه لا حول ولا قوة الا به هو حيبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الطاهرين اجمعين

Binding note

Half-bound in cardboard and brown leather. Damaged.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 527
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 607/14b

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• Tuḥfat al-akhyār fī bayān aqsām al-akhbār
• تحفة الاخيار في بيان اقسام الاخبار

OCLC

229908165

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